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«One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.»
«Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends»
«Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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Women
| Keywords:
flattery, insensible
«Swallow all your learning in the morning, but digest it in company in the evenings»
«The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease; the manner of a gentleman, ease without freedom»
«To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake»
«Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.»
«The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.»
«An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all»
«History is only a confused heap of facts»
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