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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – Lord Chesterfield

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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield

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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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That which proves too much, proves nothing! – Proverb

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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar. – Proverb

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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life — there, if one must speak out, the real man. – Marcus Aurelius

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Keep your minds open, but not so open that your brains fall out. – Walter Kotschnig, c.1940

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Time goes on. So whatever youre going to do, do it. Do it now. Dont wait. – Robert De Niro

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