Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
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For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of it.
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A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now.
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
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Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.
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I would say divorce, breaking up, being a child of divorce, any of those things are always very challenging.
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Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.
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On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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I'm looking at a place on the coast, ... I was born next to the ocean and I'd like to live next to the ocean.
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It is evident that the Church is always abandoning more the old traditional structures of European life and, therefore, is changing its appearance and living new forms in itself. It's clear most of all that the de-Christianization of Europe is progressing, that the Christian element is always vanishing more from the fabric of society.
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I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen.
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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
