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“It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.”

Quote by Lord Chesterfield

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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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“Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.”

Ifs Thinking Men Hate Known Crime Weakness Ill Silly Ignorant Imperfection Contempt Awkward Hate You Hints Rogues

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.”

Thinking Men Said Suspects Jealous Vulgar Trifles Slighted Impetuous

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.”

Ifs Men Looks Littles Long Able Deals Pay Clear Despair Accounts Debt Prudent Little Time Negligence

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.”

Confidence Diffidence

Book: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

“Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.”

Want Hours Sleep Six Seven Laziness Constancy Dozing

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.”

Elegance Refined Exalted

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.”

Wonder Seeing Experience Admire

Book: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

“Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.”

Men Moments Teach Greater Experience Weight Strikes Present Moment Hereafter

Book: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

“Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience; which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken; for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.”

Thinking Men Looks Enough Young Spirit Half Wise Dangerous Experience Young Man Look Up Mistaken Sober Coldness

Book: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