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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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For clarification purposes not for negotiation. Negotiation is done.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph...
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Imitation is the most serious form of flattery
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Flattery is a form of hatred.
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This is out of the question and out of negotiation.
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Heart-stopping envy is the sincerest form of flattery.
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In publishing, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Stella kicked the metal shutter.
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I think of myself as Special Forces, clearing the path for the infantry.
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What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
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emulation is a sincere form of flattery, but individuality is the only form of immortality.
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The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.
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Any negotiation on the basis of land for peace is a fatal mistake.
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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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"W...
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Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
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There is room for dialogue and negotiation,
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I'll be on the convoys taking the supplies to the infantry,
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Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
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The mines are no place for a pony, even one so brave as Bill. Bye-bye Bill.
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They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it.
LORD OF THE RINGS
So you have chosen.....Death.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
History is but a confused heap of facts.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
LORD MELBOURNE
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
LORD ESSEX
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of fo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a disco...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the wo...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.
LORD MANSFIELD
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and v...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
LORD JEFFREY
If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
LORD MELBOURNE
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows afte...
LORD MANSFIELD
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom m...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
LORD BARNETT
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled membe...
LORD DENNING
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
LORD BURLEIGH
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hea...
LORD BURLEIGH
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart...
LORD GREVILLE
A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futil...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and man...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetit...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.
LORD NELSON
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
LORD NELSON
Business is more exciting than any game.
LORD BEAVERBROOK
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and e...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake o...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th...
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
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON
Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON
Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD
It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD ACTON
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all th...
LORD BYRON

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