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When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

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Be wiser than other people if you can but do not tell them so.
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Nothing sharpens the arrow of sarcasm so keenly as the courtesy that polishes it no reproach is like that we clothe with a smile and present with a bow.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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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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Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.
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We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.
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To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one for it is never said, from whence.
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Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
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People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
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Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.
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The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.
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The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
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