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Take the tone of the company you are in.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
You must look into people as well as at them.
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.