Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than b

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – 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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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. – Lord Chesterfield

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Health
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The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Assumptions
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde

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With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. – William Lloyd Garrison

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All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner! – John F. Kennedy

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. – Salman Rushdie

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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. – Rabindranath Tagore

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