Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. – Lord Chesterfield
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. – Lord Chesterfield
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. – Lord Chesterfield
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. – Lord Chesterfield
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
Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley