Quote by Lord Chesterfield
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Lord Chesterfield

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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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Mules are always boasting that their ancestors were horses. – Proverb

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. – Proverb

Genealogy. An account of ones descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own. – Ambrose Bierce

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy. – James Russell Lowell

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