- Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
- Be wiser than other people are if you can, but do not tell them so – Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
- Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well - Earl of Chesterfield
- An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult – Earl of Chesterfield
- Advice is seldom welcomed; and those who want it the most always like it the least - Earl of Chesterfield
- A man of sense only trifles with women, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a child; but he neither consults them about, nor trust them with serious matters - Earl of Chesterfield
- Every woman is gained by any flattery; man, by one flattery or another - Earl of Chesterfield
- Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds - Earl of Chesterfield
- Be England what she will, with all her faults, she is my country still.
- To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
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