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Letter "L" » Lord Chesterfield Quotes
«Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.»
«Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
damnable, expense, momentary, position, ridiculous, The Pleasure
«The more one works, the more willing one is to work.»
«No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint»
«Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.»
«Character must be kept bright as well as clean.»
«I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
intimately, Out of body experience, suffers, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathizing
«Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.»
«Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
attainable, persevere, persevered, perseveres, persevering, persist
«Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Heart,
Understanding
| Keywords:
LED, oftener, understandings
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