“ Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do. ”
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“ Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are. ”
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“ No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else. ”
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“ History is but a confused heap of facts. ”
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“ I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. ”
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“ The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. ”
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“ I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. ”
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“ The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. ”
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“ History is but a confused heap of facts. ”
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“ 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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“ Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ”
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“ Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ”
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“ Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded. ”
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“ 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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“ Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. ”
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“ Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. ”
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“ Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ”
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“ Take the tone of the company you are in. ”
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“ Whoever is admitted or sought for, in company, upon any other account than that of his merit and manners, is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such-a-one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such-a-one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such-a-one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another because he plays deep at all games, or because he can drink a great deal… ”
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“ For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention. ”
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“ Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights. ”
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“ He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. ”
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“ Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. ”
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“ History is but a confused heap of facts. ”
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“ There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time. ”
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“ Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man. Therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. ”
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“ A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. ”
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“ Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them. ”
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