Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. - Lord Chesterfield

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It is true that there`s an economic argument and an economic feeling that something different needs to happen and politicians talking out of both sides of their mouth and all that kind of stuff.

Lord Chesterfield

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

All Occasions, Discretion, Judgment, Justice, Required

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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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