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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the bod

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility. – Lord Chesterfield

Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Risk
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Lord Chesterfield
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Enemy, Enemies
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Lord Chesterfield
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Perfection
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Lord Chesterfield
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. – Mark Twain

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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Futility

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. – Kahlil Gibran

Category:
Futility

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Futility

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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson

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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. – Edward R. Murrow

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