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Lord Chesterfield Quotes

«Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.»
«Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.»
«In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.»
«I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.»
«It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.»
«To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.»
«Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.»
«I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.»
«There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.»
«Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.»