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.
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Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.
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
Style is the dress of thoughts ... if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
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
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
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