"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."

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Source : 'Letters to Arthur Charles Stanhope, Esq.' (1817) Letter to A. C. Stanhope, 12 October 1765

Lord Chesterfield

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“To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.”
“Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.”
“It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. "yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.”
“The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.”

Source : David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com
“In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.”
“For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.”

Source : B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc
“Experiments in the visual arts (the invention of new ways of seeing things), are made because, due to the way the apparatus that makes up the mind is made, old processes and patterns have continually to be broken up in order to make it possible to perceive the new aspects and arrangements of evolving consciousness. The great enemy of intelligence is complacency.”
“If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.”

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