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Lord Chesterfield

Lord Chesterfield föddes den 22 september 1694 och dog den 24 mars 1773 - brittisk statsman och diplomat.
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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.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny it. A truth learned in a certain light, and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far, that the truth is only remembered and repeated for the sake of the ridicule.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch those judgments, such as they are

Domslut

Every man is to be had one way or another, and every woman almost any way

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Gud

Do as you would be done by is the surest method of pleasing

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