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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, an

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – 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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Lord Chesterfield
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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Humility
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You can avoid most of the sorrows of life, the only requirement being that you avoid all the happiness. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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This nation was built by men who took risks — pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. – Brooks Atkinson

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Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy. – Samuel Johnson

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Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent and decoration of those who did nothing. – Anon.

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Faith without works is like a bird without wings though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven. – Francis Beaumont

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin

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Our heart is like an unfinished puzzle — that is why we search for the perfect one to complete it. – Author unknown

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Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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