Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

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It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.

Jeri Ryan

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When we were kids, my favorite thing was coming to upstate New York where my family is from and hanging out with my grandparents' friends pre-Internet and them asking if we had stores or 'Do you have TV in Alaska?'

John Gourley

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Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Siri Hustvedt

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There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Lucan

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I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

Lori Greiner

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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

Lloyd Alexander

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I wanted to be pale. I didn't wanna go in the sun, because I was in school with a lot of white girls. I remember one girl said to me, 'You look better pale.' And I was like, 'Well, you're tan!' She was like, 'It's not the same.'

Jorja Smith

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I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Chely Wright

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Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

Christian de Duve

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My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

Clifford Geertz

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My journey has been a very fun one because I've chosen to make the best of every challenge that I've had along the way no matter what.

Ciara

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