Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.Lord Chesterfield
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind they will both fall into the ditch
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.
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