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- You must be respectable, if you will be respected. Funny
- Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings. All
- Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person. Flattery
- I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it. Advice
- He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. Adorned
- A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him. All
- A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business. Business
- If you will please people, you must please them in their own way. Inspirational
- Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find. Best
- Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age Age
- Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step. Any
- To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which… Call
- ... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at… Action
- The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. Carpe
- 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… Confirm
- Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not… Best
- No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else. Business
- Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had… Anyone
- Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to… Careful
- Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose… Both
- Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends. Best
- I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the… Body
- It is commonly said that ridicule is the best test of truth; for that it will not stick where it is not just. I deny… Attacked
- The more one works, the more willing one is to work. Inspirational
- 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… Appear
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