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More precious is want with honesty than wealth with infamy.


Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that'...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD While in the progress of their long decay, Thrones sink to dust, and nations pass away.
FREDERICK HOWARD, FIFTH EARL OF CARLISLE Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever sed...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's ...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Natural freedoms are but just:
There's something generous in mere lust.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) For all men would be cowards if they durst
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) There's not a thing on earth that I can name,
So foolish, and so false, as common fame.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
...
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life,
Is the best can be said for a very good wife.
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER) Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange
JOHN WILMOT (2ND EARL OF ROCHESTER)