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It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of…

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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show…
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least…
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either.…
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine…
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number,…
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do…

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