British - Statesman | September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
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