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I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise of all the papers which come from the press; I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery


Lord Mansfield

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LORD CHESTERFIELD The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There i...
LORD GREVILLE No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do busine...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
LORD MELBOURNE Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to...
LORD CHESTERFIELD