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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  1. Love, too, has to be learned. - Friedrich Nietzsche

  2. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. - Michel De Montaigne

  3. But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them. - Sarah Dessen

  4. One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed. - Richelle E. Goodrich

  5. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. - Voltaire

More Quotes By Lord Chesterfield
  1. Advice is seldom welcome and those who want it the most always like it the least.

  2. Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

  3. Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

  4. Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

  5. You must look into people as well as at them.

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