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EDMUND BURKE A chapter of accidents.
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom then integrity is the last chapter. In between...
LALIT BHOJWANI Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Prejudice in this country is like chapters in a book. Chapter One: Hating the Africans and Indians. ...
EMILIE RICHARDS The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which...
KAMI GARCIA Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in pros...
BEVERLEY NICHOLS Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written...
BEVERLY NICHOLS The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter a...
KEVIN BLEYER No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,
I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD At that point we close the chapter or we close the book.
TONY BLAIR PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM ...
GERALD M. WEINBERG God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will l...
MIKE ZACCHIO Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberatel...
SIDNEY SHELDON If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, t...
PIETRO CITATI From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent...
CHARLES DICKENS I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept ...
JANE AUSTEN I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
LEMONY SNICKET The road goes ever on and on
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Selling one song at a time is like selling just one chapter of a book.
BILL NGUYEN It's made a chapter in my life complete. You know, there was a page missing and this page of getting...
JUDY ELLIS When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
JOHN DONNE Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEY Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.
CECELIA AHERN Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the...
FERNANDO PESSOA I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMES Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism
WILLIAM JAMES I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.
JIMMY FALLON The way to final freedom is within thy self.
THE BOOK OF THE GOLDEN PRECEPTS He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.
MARIEL HEMINGWAY Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the b...
ANTHONY FOXX I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along,
JACK WILLIAMSON Everyone agrees that the London meeting is potentially a critical chapter in the peace process which...
HENRY SIEGMAN Life is a but a series of memories as we move through the passage of time, chapter by chapter; So pe...
DR NIRVADHA SINGH It was if The Wave had taken on a life of its own and now he and his students were literally riding ...
TODD STRASSER It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Today resolve to get rid of all the negativity that has been eating you away, dump those thoughts wh...
LATIKA TEOTIA Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
PHILIPPA BOYENS We fundamentally believe the first chapter of the Internet is over.
BARRY SCHULER You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Chapter One (of the Internet) was about e-commerce and e-business. Chapter Two moves us to 'Do it fo...
LOU GERSTNER With every opinion, it is closing another chapter in the story.
KEVIN NEELY It's hard to be able to express the value of your chapter, the reasons why you joined, which is brot...
LISA KENDALL You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clea...
RAFAEL CRUZ Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
ANONYMOUS Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is...
EDITH LOVEJOY PIERCE In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is wha...
PETER JACKSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We, his remaining friends, have spent the last day with Duke praying and talking about a new chapter...
DUNCAN HUNTER An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when ...
CHET FAKER Amari swung around in her seat to look back and there was indeed a small girl sitting on the boundar...
SIAN B. CLAVEN When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been rev...
CARL HIAASEN Now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which...
C.S. LEWIS You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter...
ROB BELL Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS Being different is not just a great thing, it is a blessing!
SUJISH KANDAMPULLY Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.'
The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph...
WILLIAM GOLDING They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it ...
DON SILVER Mwisho wa sura si mwisho wa kitabu. Fungua ukurasa mwingine.
ENOCK MAREGESI I mean real magic of course-- because in a few pages, you'll discover that this is a magical pencil ...
DIANNE BRIGHT Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here...
JOSH THOMPSON This is his third chapter.
JAMES WEAVER It's on to the next chapter.
RUSLAN FEDOTENKO It's like a puzzle, ... the first chapter in the story of this place.
YVONNE JOHNSON The black chapter of strife, violence, turbulence and turmoil is finally closed.
HUN SEN You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'
'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.
NEIL GAIMAN CHAPTER 14
ERIN HUNTER Chapter 27.
JARED LETO Discover more about yourself, dream wild dreams because what others see in you right is just a mild ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR This opens the door on another chapter of history.
WALTER CRONKITE The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write th...
MELODY BEATTIE It is actually a new chapter in expansion negotiations.
CHANCELLOR WOLFGANG SCHüSSEL This is a proof-of-principle study. It adds the next chapter in the story of lowering cholesterol.
ELIZABETH NABEL We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG Life is nothing but an empty book, where a new chapter is written every moment, some chapters are fu...
KIRAN RADHAKRISHNAN The next chapter of my life is always more interesting than the last one.
MICHAEL LIPSEY My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
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And fulfilling flowers,
With what pretty music
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LORD EDWARD FITZGERALD They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor
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LORD EDWARD COKE Hell is paved with good intentions.
LORD EDWARD COKE Often do the spirits
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And in to-day already walks ...
LORD EDWARD COKE You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in
it.
LORD EDWARD COKE Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
LORD EDWARD COKE Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
LORD EDWARD COKE The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
LORD EDWARD COKE Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
LORD EDWARD COKE So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
LORD EDWARD COKE Hope is a waking dream.
LORD EDWARD COKE The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as
well for his defence against injury...
LORD EDWARD COKE For a man's house is his castle.
LORD EDWARD COKE Once we are aware that our nudity makes us objects of desire, we become naked.
CHLOE THURLOW Every time the telephone rings, you feel a frisson of excitement. The call is almost never exciting,...
CHLOE THURLOW When you fall in love, everything is impregnated with new meaning. It is as if you suddenly have bor...
CHLOE THURLOW All girls compare themselves with every other girl. It is our nature; our tragedy, and it all change...
CHLOE THURLOW I understood how strangers met and fell into bed, not how they met and fell in love. I wasn't sure w...
CHLOE THURLOW In the vagina of every girl there is a sleeping snake waiting for the magic music that will bring th...
CHLOE THURLOW It took Linda Pace and it took the city coming down with the One Stop center to jar this area loose.
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CHLOE THURLOW Sex is about anticipation not culmination.
CHLOE THURLOW Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly...
CHLOE THURLOW Underwear is the female second skin.
CHLOE THURLOW Getting dressed for a woman is an art form, surreal, vaguely abstract, figurative and byzantine. Whe...
CHLOE THURLOW The Emperor of China once sent a messenger to the wise man Lao-tsu to ask how he should rule the kin...
CHLOE THURLOW Each clip and zip and fastening, each button and bow, each stretch of elastic as you undress a woman...
CHLOE THURLOW When you undress a woman you discover in her lingerie clues to her mood and desires. These whispers ...
CHLOE THURLOW Getting dressed starts with shoes. Getting undressed ends with shoes.
CHLOE THURLOW You undress a woman in the same way that you would open a magic box sealed by an angel’s kiss.
CHLOE THURLOW Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous.
CHLOE THURLOW It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.
CHLOE THURLOW Sometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as i...
CHLOE THURLOW Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness.
CHLOE THURLOW You wait and wait, you get used to waiting. But when your time comes, you must not miss it.
CHLOE THURLOW When we look in the mirror what we see is a version of who we imagine we are. If we imagine we are b...
CHLOE THURLOW Time neither flies nor sleeps. It is flexible, plastic, ever changing. Spend two hours watching a mo...
CHLOE THURLOW Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure...
CHLOE THURLOW Love and being in love are not the same thing. The woman takes the man she loves into her body and a...
CHLOE THURLOW Love is the colour of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark ...
CHLOE THURLOW The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gestu...
CHLOE THURLOW Falling in love is like falling from a high cliff into a warm silky sea, the falling is like flying ...
CHLOE THURLOW Lips are the outward sign, the emblem of desire, and lipstick is the ink in which we graffiti that m...
CHLOE THURLOW Masks reveal the shape of your soul and the state of the world and, in today’s world, everyone wea...
CHLOE THURLOW There are many ways to live, to love, to aspire. The mountain only has one peak but there are limitl...
CHLOE THURLOW Inner beauty is never found in the mirror.
CHLOE THURLOW A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.
CHLOE THURLOW Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW If you are having an affair, it could save your relationship. If you are not having an affair, and y...
CHLOE THURLOW It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrive...
CHLOE THURLOW Always say yes and try before you say no.
CHLOE THURLOW An attractive woman becomes beautiful when she's happy and in love.
CHLOE THURLOW If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any...
CHLOE THURLOW Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants...
CHLOE THURLOW There is a moment when you realise you are not doing what you want to do or being who you want to be...
CHLOE THURLOW You don't feel yourself falling in love, like it's a journey, a process; on the contrary, it hits yo...
CHLOE THURLOW The mask in which you choose to disguise yourself uncovers who you subconsciously are or want to be....
CHLOE THURLOW Masks reveal. They don’t conceal. Masks reveal your cravings, your passion, your deepest most secr...
CHLOE THURLOW Red grabs you by the throat like a claw that just hangs on and changes your DNA. There are books lik...
CHLOE THURLOW These things are flying off the market.
STEVE THURLOW Only humans smile. And the moon in its first quarter. A smile makes you look 10 years younger.
CHLOE THURLOW Smiles well up like bubbles under water and slip across your mouth without you realising its happeni...
CHLOE THURLOW Armour for a woman is not burnished steel, but silk and chiffon. We take the ‘r’ from armour. We...
CHLOE THURLOW Contentment comes from doing what is familiar. Happiness comes from the unfamiliar.
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CHLOE THURLOW There is something about cameras that always makes me smile.
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CHLOE THURLOW Eating the peach is a meditation. Your mind empties of all the must dos and should have dones. You a...
CHLOE THURLOW In the Garden of Eden, Eve wore a fig leaf, not to cover her moist parts, but to draw Adam’s gaze ...
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CHLOE THURLOW Make no mistake: girls love getting head as much as giving head. Giving head is good for your health...
CHLOE THURLOW Italians make you laugh and break your heart.
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CHLOE THURLOW To be fully alive is to walk in the shadow of death. In making love like this, like animals in the w...
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CHLOE THURLOW If there are two options, smiling is always the best choice.
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CHLOE THURLOW There is only one secret to great writing and that's great writing.
CHLOE THURLOW Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves.
CHLOE THURLOW Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not sho...
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LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different time...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can on...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink f...
LORD (JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG) ACTON There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect
confidence, and this is that the two...
LORD EDWARD GREY (GREY OF FALLODON) Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
LORD BYRON Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
LORD BYRON One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
LORD SALISBURY I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inh...
LORD BYRON In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
LORD KELVIN What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom...
LORD BYRON There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, ...
WALTER LORD You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.
WALTER LORD I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing.
WALTER LORD It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more a...
WALTER LORD Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - no...
WALTER LORD Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.
WALTER LORD I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situa...
WALTER LORD Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
WALTER LORD What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one...
JACK LORD The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduct...
LORD HAILSHAM Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
LORD BYRON Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
LORD BYRON Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
LORD BYRON If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let...
LORD BYRON There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
LORD BYRON Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.
LORD BYRON Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, lear...
LORD MOUNTBATTEN What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each...
LORD BYRON That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
LORD MELBOURNE To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
LORD ACTON And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
LORD BYRON We try to stay as open-minded about casting as possible. When you're getting things down on pape...
PHIL LORD The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu...
LORD SHAFTESBURY Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
LORD BYRON Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
LORD MELBOURNE What really matters is what you do with what you have.
SHIRLEY LORD Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!
LORD PALMERSTON It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of t...
LORD NORTHCLIFFE I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married ...
LORD BYRON True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, an...
LORD SHAFTESBURY It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year im...
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
LORD BYRON If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRON Absence - that common cure of love.
LORD BYRON Who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
LORD BYRON And when we think we lead, we are most led.
LORD BYRON The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
LORD SAMUEL A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.
LORD MELBOURNE My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in...
LORD MELBOURNE Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
LORD MELBOURNE The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte...
LORD SHAFTESBURY How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with ...
LORD ROSEBERY If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, abs...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
LORD LONGFORD God help the patient.
LORD MANSFIELD The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.
LORD SHAWCROSS You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press...
LORD BUCKLEY I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimatel...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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LORD CHESTERFIELD Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleas...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ...
LORD JEFFREY Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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LORD MELBOURNE Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story tha...
LORD CHESTERFIELD A professional whose job it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is ...
LORD MELBOURNE It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.
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.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and you...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: an...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watc...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldo...
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