Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
From Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
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.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Take the tone of the company you are in.
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