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9076 quotesA wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Wit
Lord Chesterfield
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Advice
Lord Chesterfield
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Persuasion
Lord Chesterfield
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
Failure
Lord Chesterfield
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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Inferiority
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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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Literature
Lord Chesterfield
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Time and Time Management
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 puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritans
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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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Arts and Artists
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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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Buddhism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Chastity
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
Courage
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
Reality
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
Politicians and Politics
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Thoughts and Thinking
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
Conflict
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Committees and Meetings
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Pride
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