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Letters to His Son, 1756-58 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman · Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield

Am still unwell; I cannot help it

Apt to make them think themselves more necessary than they are

BUT OF THIS EVERY MAN WILL BELIEVE AS HE THINKS PROPER

Conjectures pass upon us for truths

Despair of your ever being, SOMEBODY

Enemies as if they may one day become one's friends

Have I employed my time, or have I squandered it?

Home, be it ever so homely

Jog on like man and wife; that is, seldom agreeing

Josephus

Less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in

Many things which seem extremely probable are not true

More one works, the more willing one is to work

Most ignorant are, as usual, the boldest conjecturers

Nipped in the bud

No great regard for human testimony

Not to communicate, prematurely, one's hopes or one's fears

Person to you whom I am very indifferent about, I mean myself

Petty jury

Something must be said, but that something must be nothing

Sow jealousies among one's enemies

Think to atone by zeal for their want of merit and importance

Think yourself less well than you are, in order to be quite so

What have I done to-day?

Will pay very dear for the quarrels and ambition of a few

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