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“In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.”

Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

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The Modern Chesterfield

This book explores the evolution of the Chesterfield sofa, examining its design elements, materials, and customization options, providing readers with inspiration for modern living spaces. more

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Lord Chesterfield

British statesman known for his epistolary works, which had a profound impact on 18th-century British society. more

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“A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit.”

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“Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Persons Matter Able Language Easy Natural Written Trouble Letters Regard Grammar

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“If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.”

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Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.”

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“Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield