Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.Lord Chesterfield
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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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Lord Chesterfield
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,
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Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.
Lord Chesterfield
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