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A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one. - [Cheerfulness] A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. - [Gentlemen : Manners] A joker is near akin to a buffoon; and neither of them is the least related to wit. - [Jesting] A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. - [Heroism] A man who owes a little can clear it off in a very little time, and, if he is a prudent man, will; whereas a man, who by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all. - [Debt] A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him. - [Manners] A man's good-breeding is the best security against another's bad manners. - [Good Breeding] A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners. - [Manners] A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments. - in "Letters to His Son by the Earl of Chesterfield on the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World" [Penmanship] A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. - [Mystery] A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him. - [Coxcomb] A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. - [Mind] Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. - [Advice] Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. - [Perfection] An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. - [Ability] Anything that is worth doing at all is worth doing well. - [Doing] Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way to merit that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties. - [Assurance] Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. - [Awkwardness] Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. - [Wisdom] Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word. - [Egotism] Cautiously avoid talking of the domestic affairs either of yourself or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip, theirs are nothing to you. - [Talking] Ceremonies are the outworks of manners. - [Ceremony] Character must be kept bright as well as clean. - [Character] Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it. - [Associates] Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer. - [Compliments] Displaying page 1 of 6 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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