Quote by Lord Chesterfield
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. – Lord Chesterfield

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybodys torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. – Lord Chesterfield

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We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way. – Frank Moore Colby

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. – Robert Louis Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Weve got a lemon factory and were turning out 80-85 percent lemons. – Albert Shanker

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