Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. -

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. – Lord Chesterfield

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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Lord Chesterfield

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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines. – Johann von Goethe

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I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Egotism is the art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see. – George V. Higgins

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The nice thing about egotists is that they dont talk about other people. – Lucille S. Harper

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