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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Lord Chesterfield
Patience, Business, Men

Let this be one invariable rule of your conduct--never to show the least symptom of resentment, which you cannot, to a certain degree, gratify; but always to smile, where you cannot strike.

Lord Chesterfield
Smile, Patience, Degrees
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.302, Oxford University Press

In the course of the world, a man must very often put on an easy, frank countenance, upon very disagreeable occasions; he must seem pleased, when he is very much otherwise; he must be able to accost and receive with smiles, those whom he would much rather meet with swords.

Lord Chesterfield
Patience, Men, Tolerance
Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.298, OUP Oxford

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