Quotes 21 till 40 of 108.
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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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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
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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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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
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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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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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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
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Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
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Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
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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.
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I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
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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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I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.
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