Lord Chesterfield

(26 votes)   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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1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(19 votes)   The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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(16 votes)   Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

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(14 votes)   He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

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(14 votes)   Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

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(13 votes)   Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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(12 votes)   Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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(12 votes)   If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

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(12 votes)   Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

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(11 votes)   Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

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(10 votes)   You must look into people as well as at them.

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(241 votes)   Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.

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(229 votes)   Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

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(199 votes)   For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

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(132 votes)   The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.

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