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8984 quotesEnthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.
Enthusiasm
Henry Chester
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Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
Character
Lord Chesterfield
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
History and Historians
Lord Chesterfield
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Failure
Lord Chesterfield
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Time and Time Management
Lord Chesterfield
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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Inferiority
Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Knowledge
Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Knowledge
Lord Chesterfield
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Retirement
Lord Chesterfield
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Modesty
Lord Chesterfield
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Friends and Friendship
Lord Chesterfield
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Work
Lord Chesterfield
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Worth
Lord Chesterfield
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Intuition
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Slang
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Arts and Artists
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Good and Evil
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Love
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
Patriotism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Knowledge
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
Gold
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Innocence
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun