I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
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Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility strength alone will not do.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Let the great book of the world be your principle study.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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