The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.Lord Chesterfield
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Lord Chesterfield
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield
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