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• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. -- Lord Chesterfield (to his son)
• A man's good breeding is the best security against another's bad manners. -- Chesterfield
• The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being.
  .." -- J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S....
• An addlepated individual and his specie divaricate with prematurity.
• Jane and I got mixed up with a television show -- or as we call it back east here
  TV -- a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville....
• There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
  -- Lord Chesterfield...
• An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
  -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Beyond This Horizon", 1942...
• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Letters and Social Aim...
• Patience is a most necessary quality for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
  -- Lord Chesterfield...