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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A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffing activity of the body, are strong indications of futility. – Lord Chesterfield

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Futility
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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Shame
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The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Carpe Diem
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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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An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me! – Ambrose Bierce

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Ego

Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me. – Ambrose Bierce

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

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