Patience is a most necessary quality for business many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
More Quotes from Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield:
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
Dispatch is the soul of business.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.
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I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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