• 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
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) 1694–1773
  

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Subjects in these quotes:

1. indiscriminate
2. familiarity
3. respectable
4. contempt
5. compose
6. fellow

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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. by : Lord Chesterfield

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