A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps … - Lord Chesterfield

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The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

Lord Chesterfield

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

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At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

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As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves. . . . Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.

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