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- Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
- Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
- If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all…
- Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance…
- Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
- Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,…
- Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in…
- When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
- Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
- Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
- An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.
- Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.
- I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which…
- It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates,…
- Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half…
- Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.
- A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
- Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
- Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
- Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.
- Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which…
- Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man,…
- Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only…
- There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with…
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