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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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading -the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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While I can crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can, in my narrow domestic spheres, to my fellow creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do
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To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
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A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
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Every man is to be had one way or another, and every woman almost any way
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Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted
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Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one
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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
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Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.