If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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Lord Chesterfield
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About Lord Chesterfield
Earl of Chesterfield, in the County of Derby, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1628 for Philip Stanhope, 1st Baron Stanhope. He had been created Baron Stanhope, of Shelford in the County of Nottingham, in 1616, also in the Peerage of England. Stanhope's youngest son, the Hon. Alexander Stanhope, was the father of James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope, while his half-brother Sir John Stanhope of Elvaston was the great-grandfather of William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Lord ChesterfieldThe heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.