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LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning...
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LORD CHESTERFIELD I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
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LORD TRENT A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
LORD ALTRINCHAM