If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
learning
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool.
life wisdom art wise fool seeking
Common sense is the best sense I know of.
sense common commonsense
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
quality people fear wit love
fashion
Know the true value of time snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
idleness time enjoy moment true procrastination today tomorrow laziness
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
insults insult forgotten injury
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
days advice
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
truth advice
When a man wants your advice he generally wants your praise
man advice praise
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
age judgement judge speak contempt idolatry
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
people enjoy friends inferiority bestfriend
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
reading studying man world education learning knowledge books
Few people do business well who do nothing else
people business
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all
business
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