I think a much tighter system of control is required, though I do think that fairly lengthy detention is justified in a very small number of cases by evidence.


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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
LORD BARNETT
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
LORD BURLEIGH
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart...
LORD GREVILLE
A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
LORD CHESTERFIELD