A man of sense only trifles with them, p... by Lord Chesterfield

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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

- Lord Chesterfield

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Beauty Time

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

- Lord Chesterfield

Man Love People

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

- Lord Chesterfield

Men Women

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

- Lord Chesterfield

Time Will

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

- Lord Chesterfield

Health Soul

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

- Lord Chesterfield

Virtue First

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

- Lord Chesterfield

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