169 ordspråk av Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel
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Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other, and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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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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Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
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Unlike my subject will I frame my song, / It shall be witty and it shan't be long.
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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.
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We are, in truth, more than half of what we are by imitation
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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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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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What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.
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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
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When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise
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