A cheerful, easy countenance and behavior are very useful: they make fools think you a good-natured man, and they make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, wit [Philip Dormer Stanhope]

Letter to his son, #298, enclosed maxims (15 Jan 1758)
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Labeled as letter #297 in the linked source, but #298 in the volume I am using as reference, which does not include the maxims.