Lord Chesterfield Quotes

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

- Lord Chesterfield

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Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. - Lord Chesterfield

In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases. - Lord Chesterfield

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. - Lord Chesterfield