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Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

Lord Chesterfield

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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.
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Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
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Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
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If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.
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I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.
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I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
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