Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
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Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“The more one works, the more willing one is to work.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.”
“People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.”
Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“To please people is a great step towards persuading them.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.”