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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. - Lord Ch

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. – Lord Chesterfield

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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

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Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. – Lord Chesterfield

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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it. – Wilson Mizner

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Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

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Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs. – George Chapman

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Flattery works like a drug. – Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, 2007

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