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Sailors, with their built-in sense of order and discipline, should really be running the world.


Admiral (Lord) Louis Mountbatten

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LORD MOUNTBATTEN My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.
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LORD MOUNTBATTEN I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
LORD MOUNTBATTEN Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through m...
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ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
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LORD SHAFTESBURY I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
LORD NELSON A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.
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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.
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.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD The physically fit can enjoy their vices.
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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.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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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.
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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.
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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