Quote by Lord Chesterfield
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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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – 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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A dimple on the chin, the devil within. – Scottish Proverb

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Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other. – Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Even I dont wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. – Cindy Crawford

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I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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