Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG PCwas a British statesman, and a man of letters, and wit. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and...
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
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Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.
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In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
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The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.
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Real friendship is a slow grower.
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.
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The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
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People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'
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A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.
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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.
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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
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Take the tone of the company that you are in
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Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted