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Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Lord Chesterfield
Men, Experience, Weight
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.630

Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.

Lord Chesterfield
Experience, Wonder, Admire
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.185

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