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Lord Chesterfield Quotes: Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
         

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.


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Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
         



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