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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1484/">Quotes by <em>Chesterfield, Lord</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

The Earls of Chesterfield were an aristocratic family from Derbyshire, England. Their ancestral seat is Bretby Hall at Bretby, Derbyshire, and their family name is "Stanhope". Upon the death of the thirteenth Earl, the title became extinct, as no more male descendants of the first Earl were living. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least."

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"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."

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"The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."

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"Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so."

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"The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation."

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"Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding."

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"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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"Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults."

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"Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment."

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"There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives."

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