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If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.


Lord Halifax

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EDWARD F. HALIFAX Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
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EDWARD F. HALIFAX The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.
EDWARD F. HALIFAX Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
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EDWARD F. HALIFAX Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.
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WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
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WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
LORD GREVILLE Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
LORD CHESTERFIELD I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.
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.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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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.
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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