Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Tag: Lord Chesterfield
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their friends.
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.