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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Lord Chesterfield
Pleasure
Reading
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
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Peace
Wife
Man
Separation
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Lord Chesterfield
Work
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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Compliment
Poor
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Lord Chesterfield
Pleasure
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
Lord Chesterfield
Beauty
Time
Flying
Take the tone of the company you are in.
Lord Chesterfield
Company
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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Time
Values
Difference
Dress
Man
Neglect
Sense
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield
Men
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Lord Chesterfield
Time
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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Imagination
Want
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Lord Chesterfield
Travel
Country
Self
World
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield
People
Injury
Insult
Nothing
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
Lord Chesterfield
Mankind
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
People