An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. – Lord Chesterfield
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. – Lord Chesterfield

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. – Lord Chesterfield
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. – Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield