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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Quotations

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Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
The pleasure is momentary, the position rediculous, and the expense damnable.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

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