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WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS

FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION OF LORD CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SON

by David Widger

CONTENTS:

The Entire PG Edition of Chesterfield .....[LC#11][lcewk10.txt]3261 Complete Letters to His Son ...............[LC#11][lc11s10.txt]3361 Letters To His Son 1766-71, ...............[LC#10][lc10s10.txt]3360 Letters To His Son 1759-65, ...............[LC#09][lc09s10.txt]3359 Letters To His Son 1756-58, ...............[LC#08][lc08s10.txt]3358 Letters To His Son 1753-54, ...............[LC#07][lc07s10.txt]3357 Letters To His Son 1752, ..................[LC#06][lc06s10.txt]3356 Letters To His Son 1751, ..................[LC#05][lc05s10.txt]3355 Letters To His Son 1750, ..................[LC#04][lc04s10.txt]3354 Letters To His Son 1749, ..................[LC#03][lc03s10.txt]3353 Letters To His Son 1748, ..................[LC#02][lc02s10.txt]3352 Letters To His Son 1746-47, ...............[LC#01][lc01s10.txt]3351

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LETTERS TO HIS SON, 1746-47 [LC#01][lc01sxxx.xxx]3351

DEAR BOY: There is nothing which I more wish that you should know, and which fewer people do know, than the true use and value of time. It is in everybody's mouth; but in few people's practice.

Have a real reserve with almost everybody; and have a seeming reserve with almost nobody; for it is very disagreeable to seem reserved, and very dangerous not to be so. Few people find the true medium; many are ridiculously mysterious and reserved upon trifles; and many imprudently communicative of all they know.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; (they will both...

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