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• History is only a confused heap of facts.
• Sacrifice to the Graces. -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, March 9, 1748
• Style is the dress of thoughts. -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, Nov. 24, 1749
• Babylon 5 is open for business.
• A precedent embalms a principle. -- Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881) -- Speech, Feb.
  22, 1848...
• The heaviest human in thw world was Robert Earl Hughes born in 1926 in Illinois.
  He weighed 1069 lbs in Feb, 1958....
• I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow, -- Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) -- Letter, Nov.
  6, 1747...
• Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
  -- Fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773)...
• Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh. -- Earl of Chesterfield