Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. - Lord Chesterfield

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Lord Chesterfield: "Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm."

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Confirm	Everything	Experience	Justify
Justness	Maximmongers	Most	Myself
Preferred	Prettiness	Refused	Thought
Truth	Turn

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