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Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Fear

Quotes about: Fear
  • The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.352
  • Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

    "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.
  • A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

    Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629

Lord Chesterfield

  • Born: September 22, 1694
  • Died: March 24, 1773
  • Occupation: British Statesman
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