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- There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not…
- Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
- 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,…
- So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular…
- Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.
- Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and…
- Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that…
- Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
- Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.
- People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
- It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.
- We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
- Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
- Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.
- The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings to judge.
- We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with…
- Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.
- 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,…
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