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.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.Lord Chesterfield
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Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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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.
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