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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – 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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Fear
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. – Lord Chesterfield

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Art
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. – Lord Chesterfield

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Health
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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. – Benjamin Franklin

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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth. – Proverb

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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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