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Famous Quotes By Lord Chesterfield - 2

This is page 2 of famous quotes made by the English statesman and man of letters, Lord Chesterfield.

Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, mediocre ones on their beauty.

Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.

In scandal as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

If a fool knows a secret, he tells it because he is a fool.

We, my lords, may thank Heaven that we have something better than our brains to depend on.

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

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