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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

~Philip Stanhope, 4Th Earl Of Chesterfield

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

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

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Statesman

Born: September 22nd, 1694

Died: March 24th, 1773

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