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.
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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.Lord Chesterfield
If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people
Lord Chesterfield
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
Lord Chesterfield
Swallow all your learning in the morning, but digest it in company in the evenings
Lord Chesterfield
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.
Lord Chesterfield
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield
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