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Famous Lord Chesterfield Quotes
“There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today”
“Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.”
“Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.”
“Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.”
“Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.”
“Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.”
“Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.”
“Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.”
“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”
“Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.”
“In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.”
“Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.”
“You must be respectable, if you will be respected.”
“Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.”
“Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.”
“I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.”
“He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.”
“A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.”
“If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.”
“Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.”