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 blockheads.
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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.Lord Chesterfield
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Lord Chesterfield
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, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Lord Chesterfield
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield
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