Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do no

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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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. – Lord Chesterfield

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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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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait. – J. Petit-Senn

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Know thyself, still the best antidote to a sense of moral superiority. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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It is always the secure who are humble. – G.K. Chesterton

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Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with. – Peter Marshall

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Ive always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. – Malcolm Mclaren

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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. – Archimedes

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Luxury is an ancient notion. There was once a Chinese mandarin who had himself wakened three times every morning simply for the pleasure of being told it was not yet time to get up. – Argosy

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If you have to fight a crowd of boys, its best to go for the biggest one. That way you wont have to fight them all. The others will see that you mean business and you will win their respect. – Suzanne Vega

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