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Lord Chesterfield

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield

Fear

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Lord Chesterfield means that when you appeal to people's emotions like pride, love, pity, or ambition, their feelings will support you more strongly than their logical thinking can oppose you. In other words, emotional influence can overpower rational objections, so you don’t need to worry about their reason working against you.

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