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"It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life."
"You have a habit of having an 'underhand', and that is why you get a boss. Otherwise, no one is your boss and no one is your underhand; such is the world."
"The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age."
"If... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity."
"People get absorbed in chitchats with whomever they meet. They simply have to meet someone. Infinite energies are wasted in such chitchatting."
"A person's true character lies somewhere until after you might have pressed the wrong button without knowing, then you'll realize that there are dogs in human form."
Explore more quotes by Lord Chesterfield
"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."
"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."
"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."
"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
"Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me."
"I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive."
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