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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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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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Lord Chesterfield
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation. – Lord Chesterfield

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Peace
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance – Henry Ward Beecher

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Appearance

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. – Jean Cocteau

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Appearance

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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Appearance

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only. – Samuel Butler, Erewhon

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. – Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. – Marcus Aurelius

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Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. – Robert Staughton Lynd

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. – Benjamin Franklin

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