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Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder.
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To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
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I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.
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People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
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Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence and dexterity, but at the same time with the utmost personal civility to them: and be firm without heat.
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Smooth your way to the head through the heart. The way of reason is a good one: but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
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Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
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If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?
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Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
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Remember that the wit, humour, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.
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The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them.
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I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views for lies are always detected, sooner or later.
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Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.
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