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Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Lord Chesterfield
Fear, Coward, Insult

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger.

Lord Chesterfield
Fear, People, Way
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.352

A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.

Lord Chesterfield
Fear, Degrees, Produce
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629

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