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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Topic: Abuse
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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Topic: All About Love
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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
Topic: Appearance
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Topic: Appearance
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.
Topic: Appearance
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Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.
Topic: Business
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You must look into people, as well as at them.
Topic: Character
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.
Topic: Education
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Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Topic: Existence
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Topic: Flattery
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Topic: Friends / Friendship
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History is a confused heap of facts.
Topic: History
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Topic: Injury
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Topic: Inspirational
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by
their understandings.
Topic: Inspirational
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Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
Topic: Inspirational
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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Topic: Inspirational
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Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Topic: Inspirational
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Topic: Inspirational
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Topic: Laziness
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Know the true value of time: snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Topic: Laziness
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A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
Topic: Manners
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Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had (as it is called) in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
Topic: Miscellaneous
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Topic: Modesty
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Topic: Perfection
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Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Topic: Perspective
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Topic: Philosophy
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Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Topic: Pleasure
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
Topic: Weakness
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Topic: Youth
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