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Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.Lord Chesterfield
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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.Lord Chesterfield
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Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.Lord Chesterfield
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Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.Lord Chesterfield
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You must look into people as well as at them.Lord Chesterfield
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Lord Chesterfield
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When one is learning one should not think of play and when one is at play one should not think of learning.Lord Chesterfield
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There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.Lord Chesterfield
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Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.Lord Chesterfield
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.Lord Chesterfield
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The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.Lord Chesterfield
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Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.Lord Chesterfield
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When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.Lord Chesterfield
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.Lord Chesterfield
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Lord Chesterfield
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Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.Lord Chesterfield
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Pleasure is a reciprocal no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased one must please.Lord Chesterfield
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Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.Lord Chesterfield
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Idleness is the holiday of fools.Lord Chesterfield
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We are in truth more than a half of what we are by imitation.Lord Chesterfield
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Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.Lord Chesterfield
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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.Lord Chesterfield
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.Lord Chesterfield
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Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.Lord Chesterfield
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.Lord Chesterfield
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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 whereas those who have a great deal of business must buckle to it and then they always find time enough to do it.Lord Chesterfield
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Style is the dress of thoughts.Lord Chesterfield
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There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.Lord Chesterfield
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If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.Lord Chesterfield