{"author":"Lord Chesterfield","author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["friendship"],"id":44,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"When one is learning  one should not think of play  and when one is at play  one should not think of learning.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["concentration"],"id":45,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["deeds"],"id":3434,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"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.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["goals"],"id":7045,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter  as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["eloquence"],"id":17900,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out  for if people are unwilling to hear you  you had better hold your tongue than them.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["conversation"],"id":28628,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"Pleasure is a reciprocal  no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased  one must please.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["helping","people"],"id":51675,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"Few men are of one plain  decided colour  most are mixed  shaded  and blended  and vary as much  from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["homo","sapiens"],"id":66305,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once  but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["one","day"],"id":111031,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"},{"text":"We are  in truth  more than a half of what we are by imitation.","author":"Lord Chesterfield","tags":["imitation"],"id":111748,"author_id":"Lord+Chesterfield"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}