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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.
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Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.
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Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years; but we don't choose to have it known.
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Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.
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The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
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Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
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Take the tone of the company you are in.
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
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Sacrifice to the Graces.
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield |
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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.
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Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
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Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
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Style is the dress of thoughts.
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Dispatch is the soul of business.
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I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so.
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
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