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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

British - Statesman | September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Best Friends Enjoy You Your

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Patience Business Quality Man Story

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Time You Will Others Same Pleasure

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Great Mind Weak Things Cannot Like

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Judgment Always Discretion Occasions

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Doing Worth Whatever Well

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Time Feel Same Enemies Resentment

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Learning You Strike Out Wear Watch

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Love You Reason Without Distrust

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Beauty Time Flying Hours Swift Brow

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

You Dark Will Side Clear Hear

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Man Mind Learn You Young Sometimes

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