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Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.

Book by Charles Caleb Colton · 16 quotes · Men, Draws, Happiness

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Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'. Quotes

“The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.”

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“Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.”

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“Princes rule the people, and their own passions rule Princes; but Providence can over-rule the whole, and draw the instruments of his inscrutable purposes from the vices, no less than the virtues of Kings.”

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“The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.”

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“An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.”

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“We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.”

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“The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.”

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