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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 Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON