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“Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.”

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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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“Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.”

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Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.”

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Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.”

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

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

“Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.”

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“It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.”

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“Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.”

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“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.”

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