Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. - Lord

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. – Lord Chesterfield

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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. – Lord Chesterfield

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Business
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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

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Humility
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. – Lord Chesterfield

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Wide will wear, but tight will tear. – Proverb

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Even I dont wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. – Cindy Crawford

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The care that we bestow on our person is a species of politeness towards others… – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875

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Think not I am what I appear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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He who burns his bridges better be a damn good swimmer. – Author Unknown

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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. – James Baldwin

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