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Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. - Lord

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. – 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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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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Chins without beards deserve no honor. – Proverb

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The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster

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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometimes I wonder — if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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As for courage and will – we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. – Andre Norton

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Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said. – Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated from Latin

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[H]e was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. – Kongzi

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