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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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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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Vanity
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Lord Chesterfield
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The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Carpe Diem
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Lord Chesterfield
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. – Frank Leahy, Look, 1955 January 10th

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When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. – Mary H. Waldrip

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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment. – St. Bernard

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Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. Its done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer. – Richard Branson

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