Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
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Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
In my mind there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.… I am neither of a melancholy, nor a cynical disposition, and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody; but I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, who used to say, “Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.”
Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
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