"A judicious reticence is hard to learn, but it is one of the great lessons of life." ~Lord Chesterfield
"A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward." ~Lord Chesterfield
"A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation, will be very absurd, and consequently very unwelcome in company. He may say very good things; but they will be probably so ill-timed, misplaced, or improperly addressed, that he had much better hold his tongue." ~Lord Chesterfield on [Learning]
"A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones." ~Lord Chesterfield on [Mystery]
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." ~Lord Chesterfield on [Advice]
"Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned." ~Lord Chesterfield
"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding." ~Lord Chesterfield
"Be your character. What it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word." ~Lord Chesterfield
“Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.” ~Lord Chesterfield
"Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can." ~Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl
"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old." ~Lord Chesterfield
"If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light. Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth." ~Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl
"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends." ~Lord Chesterfield
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked." ~Lord Chesterfield
"Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible." ~Earl of Chesterfield
“Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.” ~Lord Chesterfield
“You must look into people, as well as at them.” ~Lord Chesterfield on Character
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