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• Style is the dress of thoughts. -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, Nov. 24, 1749
• Sacrifice to the Graces. -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, March 9, 1748
• I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
• Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, March 10, 1746...
• Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
  Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value....
• History is only a confused heap of facts.
• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Speech, Nov.
  9, 1867...
• I assisted at the birth of that most significant word "flirtation," which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
  -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- The World, No. 101...
• There never was a good war or a bad peace. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept.
  11, 1773...