As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.Lord Chesterfield
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Lord Chesterfield
The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom
Lord Chesterfield
In the case of scandal as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief
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Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it
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In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases,
Lord Chesterfield
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