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Reason Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
- 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.
- Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
- Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
- Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes…
- Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of…
- If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their…
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