Quote by Lord Chesterfield
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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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. – Lord Chesterfield

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Fear
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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

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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. – André Gide

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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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Compliments

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

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Compliments

Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it. – Kin Hubbard

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Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar. – J. Edgar Hoover

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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. – Colin Powell

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