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Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Total quotes: 7
“You are whatever the company you keep is.”
— Lord Chesterfield, The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Tagged: Life
“Have a real reserve with almost everyone and have a seemingly reserve with almost nobody.”
— Lord Chesterfield, Lord Chesterfield's Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Tagged: Life
“Since we are denied a long life, let us leave behind something to show that we have lived.”
— Lord Chesterfield, Lord Chesterfield's Letters (Oxford World's Classics)
Tagged: Life
“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.”
— Lord Chesterfield, The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Tagged: Life
“Remains of antiquity, public buildings, paintings, sculptures, etc ought to be seen and that with a proper degree of attention but this is soon done, for they are only outsides. It is not so with more important objections; the insides of which must be seen; and they require and deserve much more attention.”
— Lord Chesterfield, The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Tagged: Life
“It is a sure sign of a little mind to be doing one thing, and at the same time to be either thinking of another, or not thinking at all. One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.”
— Lord Chesterfield, The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Tagged: Life
“Endeavor as much as you can, to keep company with people above you: there you rise, as much as you sink with people below you...Do not mistake when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth: that is the least consideration but I mean with regard to their merit and the light in which the world considers them.”
— Lord Chesterfield, The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son
Tagged: Life
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