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«Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds»
«Women, then, are only children of a larger growth»
«As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.»
«To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.»
«Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.»
«Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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coarse, disadvantage, ever so, proportioned, rags, tatter, tattered, tatters, well-proportioned
«Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.»
«Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.»
«A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.»
«Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.»
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