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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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