Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield quotes and sayings page 3 (statesman). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 52 we have.
“He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.”
“I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”
“Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.”
“A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.”
“In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.”
“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.”
“A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.”
“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.”
“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.”
“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.”
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