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• Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise. -- Lord Chesterfield
• Always obey your superiors--if you have any. -- Mark Twai
• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield (to his son)
• If A. can prove, however conclusively, that he may, of right enslave B, why may not B snatch the same argument, and prove equally, that he may enslave A.
  You say A is white and B is black. It is color, the...
• Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in.
  If you gave parts you will show them more or less upon every subjec...
• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. -- Lord Chesterfield
• You must look into people, as well as at them. -- Lord Chesterfield
• You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will.
  -- RUSH, Free Will...
• You disguise your laziness as pride.