Knowledge is comfortable and a necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, but if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
More Quotes from Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield:
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
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please almost everybody knows someone thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.
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The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Those whom you can make like themselves better will, I promise you, like you very well.
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