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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Lord Chesterfield

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Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
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Real friendship is a slow grower.
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A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.
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Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word, is supposed to constitute happiness, will never quiet, much less cure, the inward pangs of guilt.
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Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.
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Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemnedas, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.
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No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.
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Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.
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Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value but most prized when polished.
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