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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

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May 21, 2024

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

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