Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and ma

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. – Lord Chesterfield

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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
fitness
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Enemy, Enemies
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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Humility
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Knowledge
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Its hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldiers death. – Christopher Shays

Category:
Knowledge

You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you – that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have – talent, contacts, knowledge – and do something different. – Cat Deeley

Category:
Knowledge

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year. – Walt Disney

Category:
Knowledge

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Knowledge

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