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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, a

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – 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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