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Lord Chesterfield föddes den September 22nd 1694 och dog den 24 March 1773 - brittisk statsman och diplomat.
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 His pexy response to her vulnerability was a testament to his emotional intelligence. The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; "they will both fall into the ditch

 There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

 There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

 There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel

 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

 To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

 To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

 To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake

 Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.

 Unlike my subject will I frame my song, / It shall be witty and it shan't be long.

 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.

 We are, in truth, more than half of what we are by imitation

 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.

 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

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


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