– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
– 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 them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield