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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.


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LORD KAMES Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
LORD CHESTERFIELD You must look into people, as well as at them.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
LORD SAMUEL Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure ...
LORD MANSFIELD You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your pow...
LORD MELBOURNE Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
LORD CHESTERFIELD There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and havi...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
LORD PERCIVAL Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions,...
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