Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.Lord Chesterfield
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Lord Chesterfield
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind they will both fall into the ditch
Lord Chesterfield
If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people
Lord Chesterfield
Buy good books, and read them the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
Lord Chesterfield
Women, and young men, are very apt to tell what secrets they know, from the vanity of having been trusted
Lord Chesterfield
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