Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life returns are equally expected for both
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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.Lord Chesterfield
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
Lord Chesterfield
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
Lord Chesterfield
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all
Lord Chesterfield
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Lord Chesterfield
You must look into people as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
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