The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers. - Lord Chesterfield

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The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

Lord Chesterfield

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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Few people do business well who do nothing else

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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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Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

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