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Lord Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, KG, PC (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726. Following the death of his mother in 1708, Stanhope was raised mainly by his grandmother, the Marchioness of Halifax. Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, he left just over a year into his studies, after focusing on languages and oration. He subsequently embarked on the Grand Tour of the Continent, to complete his education as a nobleman, by exposure to the cultural legacies of Classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to become acquainted with his aristocratic counterparts and the polite society of Continental Europe.

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One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

Art, Civil, Friends, Ought, War

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.

Body, Intimately, Mind, Suffering, Suffers, Sympathizes

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Can Do, Doe, Procrastinates, Procrastinating, Truth, Yawns

Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.

Company, Enemies, Hate, Men, Strong, Yield

In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases, or offends you in others will engage, disgust, please or offend others in you.

Men, Offend, Offends, Order, Passion

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

Intolerated, Intoleration, Turn, Turns

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Connections, Degrees, Friendship, Friendships, Habitudes, Intimate

Fear manifested invites danger.

Anticipation, Danger, Fear, Invites, Manifested

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Fashion, Ifs, Nobody

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

Different, Everywhere, Human, Human Nature, Humans, Modes

Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

Age, Amusement, Giving, Greatest, Possible, Searching

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

Company, Language, Purely, Speak

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

Care, Long, People, Talking, Tire, Treat

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.

Funny, Brother, Sibling, Grandma, Taught

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Character, Effort, Firmness, Maze, Success

Smooth your way to the head, through the heart. The way of reason is a good one; but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.

Compassion, Heart, Longer, Smooth, Way

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Smile, Patience, Degrees, Strike, Resentment

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Good, Good Night, Life, Man, Rainy, Success

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

Failure, Lack, Precious Stones, Stones, Success, Things

Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

Attention, Butterfly, Mind, Mistake, Strong

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