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Famous Lord Chesterfield Quotes
“Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.”
“Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.”
“The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.”
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
“He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.”
“You must look into people, as well as at them.”
“A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.”
“Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.”
“Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.”
“People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.”