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13535 quotesI recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Time and Time Management
Lord Chesterfield
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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
Persuasion
Lord Chesterfield
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Laughter
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.
Scandal
Lord Chesterfield
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Knowledge
Lord Chesterfield
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Vice
Lord Chesterfield
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Retirement
Lord Chesterfield
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Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
Manners
Lord Chesterfield
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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Belief
Lord Chesterfield
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Heart
Lord Chesterfield
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Modesty
Lord Chesterfield
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Friends and Friendship
Lord Chesterfield
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
Literature
Lord Chesterfield
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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Time and Time Management
Lord Chesterfield
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
Conformity
Lord Chesterfield
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Time and Time Management
Lord Chesterfield
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The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Work
Lord Chesterfield
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Divorce
Lord Chesterfield
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Fashion
Lord Chesterfield
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You must look into people, as well as at them.
Character
Lord Chesterfield
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Books - Reading
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Puritans
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Angels
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun