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Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#come #despondency #everything #give #however

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#contradiction #courage #desire #die #form

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#attic #being #being content #content #contented

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#common people #commonsense #compulsory #deprive #education

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#call #impartiality #indifference #may #mean

You never really know a man until you have divorced him. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

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