Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Lord Chesterfield
by Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
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- English
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DEAR BOY: There is nothing which I more wish that you should know, and
which fewer people do know, than the true use and value of time. It is
in everybody's mouth; but in few people's practice.
Have a real reserve with almost everybody; and have a seeming reserve
with almost nobody; for it is very disagreeable to seem reserved, and
very dangerous not to be so. Few people find the true medium; many are
ridiculously mysterious and reserved upon trifles; and many imprudently
communicative of all they know.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less,
than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; (they
will both fall into the ditch.) The only sure guide is, he who has often
gone the road which you want to go.
People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their
opinion of you, upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a
Spanish proverb, which says very justly, TELL ME WHO YOU LIVE WITH AND I
WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE!
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