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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Idleness is only the refuge of weakminds, and the holiday of fools. — Philip Dormer Stanhope
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
I recommend you take care of the minutes: for hours take care of themselves
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Dispatch is the soul of business.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
— 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
Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
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.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Common sense is the best sense I know of
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope