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When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

Lord Chesterfield

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To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
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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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A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
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Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value but most prized when polished.
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
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Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.
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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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Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.
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Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.
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Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires.
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