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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. – 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

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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. – 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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I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature. – Paul Cezanne

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Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. Thats human nature. – Noam Chomsky

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. – John Milton

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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. – Joseph Addison

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen

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