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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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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

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