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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your

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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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. – Lord Chesterfield

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Father
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Lord Chesterfield
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. – Lord Chesterfield

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Letters
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Lord Chesterfield
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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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I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so Ive been going by Yasiin since 99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now Im declaring it openly. – Mos Def

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I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. – Robert Frost

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Fear

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear… that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. – Harold Kushner

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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – Isabel Allende

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Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. – Barbara de Angelis

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Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesnt include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged. – Fred Upton

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I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. On why he gave up medicine – Michael Crichton

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