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Lord Chesterfield: top 200 quotes
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Reading (n.) is in and of itself a brute pleasure similar to that which cow must have in grazing.
Business (n.) is an activity in which patience is the most necessary quality. Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Business (n.) is, contrary to popular believe, to readily be mixed with pleasure. The mixing is in fact the height of both.
Business (n.) is half done when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.
Business (n.) is impossible to carry out without some dissimulation.
Man (n.) is a mixed, shaded, and blended thing which varies as much in different situations as silks do in different lights.
Religion (n.) is, by no means, a proper subject of conversation in mixed company... it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.
History (n.) is only a confused heap of facts.
Success (n.) is, in most parts of the world, such that mediocrity will carry one further than superior knowledge and shining parts.
Success (n.) is, in most domains, a reward given to middling talents and second-rate knowledge more often than to superior knowledge and shining parts.
Woman (n.) is like telephus's spear: If one end kills, the other cures.
Woman (n.) has only two passions... vanity and love.
Woman's (n.) passion is too strong, and reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.
Woman (n.) is such that no woman has ever yet either reasoned or acted long without some little thing, love, resentment, momentary interest, supposed slight, or humour oversetting it.
Woman (n.) is such that, as concerns her beauty, no flattery is too much to swallow.
Woman (n.) is only a child of a larger growth.
Wisdom (n.) is attained in the seeking. To think one has attained it is foolishness.
Philosophy (n.) is represented most truly in those who don't care for philosophy.
Friendship (n.) is a slow grower when real.
Friendship's (n.) permanency depends upon the continuity of good fortune.