Quote by Lord Chesterfield
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagi

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. – Lord Chesterfield

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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Vanity
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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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Books
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. – H. G. Wells

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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. – George Henry Lewes

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Imagination

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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Imagination

Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your minds eye. Thats an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition. – Joshua Foer

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Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. – Karl Marx

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993

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I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit. – Debi Thomas

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Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he cant find his car keys, much less keep a national secret. – Lauren Graham

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