In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own for men in general are very much alike, and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases,
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One should always think of what one is about when one is learning, one should not think of play and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.Lord Chesterfield
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
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Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
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