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«Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.»
«Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.»
«In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.»
«I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments.»
«It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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diamond, Great Britain, polished, the Graces
«To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.»
«Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.»
«I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.»
«There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.»
«Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.»
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