The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.


Lord Edward Coke

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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