I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Lord Chesterfield
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
Lord Chesterfield
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Lord Chesterfield
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield
Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance
Lord Chesterfield
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
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