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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends, which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior, but take great care not to drop one word of their experience, for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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.

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.

Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to Dispatch than Method.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.

Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

History is a confused heap of facts.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.