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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Lord Chesterf

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. – Lord Chesterfield

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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. – Lord Chesterfield

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Patience
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Lord Chesterfield
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield

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Learning
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Lord Chesterfield
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O, she is the antidote to desire. – William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695

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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances. – Benjamin Franklin

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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. – Sam Brown

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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. – Joseph Addison

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