Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them…

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Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained. ✨ Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). Lord Chesterfield's Letters, p.179, Oxford University Press
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Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. ✨ Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman. Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1774.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ✨ 'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746
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, David Roberts (20 … ▶
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Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing. ✨ Letters to His Son, 16 Oct. 1747

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained. ✨ Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). Lord Chesterfield's Letters, p.179, Oxford University Press

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