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«Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
confirm, confirming, justify, justness, maxim, preferred, prettiness, refused, turn to
«Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
inconsistencies, invariably, predominant, weakest, weakly, wisest
«He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.»
«If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.»
«Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
draws, self-loving, self love, thick, thickest, thick with, veil
«Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Age,
Judgement
| Keywords:
ancients, contempt, idolatries, idolatry, merits, moderns, Modern Age, The Modern Age
«Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears»
«There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.»
«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»
«Take the tone of the company that you are in»
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