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Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybodys torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. – Lord Chesterfield

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Religion
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Lord Chesterfield
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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus. – Cicero

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A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written. – Theodor Haecker

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His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. – Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749

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You complain, Velox, that the epigrams which I write are long. You yourself write nothing; your attempts are shorter. – Marcus Valerius Martialis, translated from Latin

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