Quote by Lord Chesterfield
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description o

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield

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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. – Lord Chesterfield

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Age
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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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Books
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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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At the moment Im doing this space movie, so Im obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line its gone. Then Ill be able to superficially say stuff about space. – Cillian Murphy

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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe its time to enjoy being a star. – Vincent Cassel

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A lot of people say that comedy doesnt travel well. I found it very accessible. – Mark Addy

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To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

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Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. – Tom Stoppard

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No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life. – Bill Murray

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Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young. – American Indian Proverb

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. – Aesop

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