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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is alw

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield

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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. – Lord Chesterfield

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Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. – John Lyly

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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. – Robin G. Collingwood

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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali

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