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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attain

In seeking wisdom thou art wise in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool. – Lord Chesterfield

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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Vanity
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Lord Chesterfield
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield

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I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. – Jim Morrison

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Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a science, but an art. – William Bernbach

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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. – Dorothea Lange

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

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A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-its sad and its sick… and its profitable. – Heather Donahue

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