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
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.Lord Chesterfield
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
Lord Chesterfield
Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.
Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
Lord Chesterfield
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Lord Chesterfield
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Lord Chesterfield
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