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There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
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A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.
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Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
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Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.
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You must look into people, as well as at them.
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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.
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Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
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Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.
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Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.
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Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth that is the least consideration but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.
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A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.
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The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
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If you love music hear it go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light brings him into a great deal of bad company and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.
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Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.
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Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.
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Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. They look upon spirit to be a much better thing than experience which they call coldness. They are but half mistaken for though spirit without experience is dangerous, experience without spirit is languid and ineffective.
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Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
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