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

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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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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield

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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. – Lord Chesterfield

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Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds. – Sophocles

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If its natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how? – Joan Baez

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As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! – Coco Chanel

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I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. – Clarence Darrow

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Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. – I Ching

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A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. – Graham Greene

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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. – E. O. Wilson

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