Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
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No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraintLord 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.
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In the case of scandal as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense and his books.
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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.
Lord Chesterfield
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