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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with

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

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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. – Lord Chesterfield

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