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Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do no

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. – Lord Chesterfield

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Prejudice
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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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Enemy, Enemies
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Before honor is humility. – Bible

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When someone sings his own praises, he always gets the tune too high. – Mary H. Waldrip

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True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. – Edward Frederick Halifax

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If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days. – P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

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My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home. – Mike Pence

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The doctor may also learn more about the illness from the way the patient tells the story than from the story itself. – James B. Herrick

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