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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

Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Dance, Dancing
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Lord Chesterfield
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Business
Author
Lord Chesterfield
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Peace
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Lord Chesterfield
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Shame
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When all our deeds of glory are laid in front of Thee, – Connie Dover

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Shame

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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Shame

Scandal is what one half of the world takes pleasure inventing, and the other half in believing. – Paul Chatfield

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Shame

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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Shame

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I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness. – Ezra Miller

Category:
Happiness

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
Friendship

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. – John C. Collins

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Wise Words

In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged. – Elizabeth Hardwick, Seduction and Betrayal, 1974

Category:
Marriage