Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
Lord Chesterfield
You must look into people as well as at them.
people
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
It is a great advantage for any man to be able to talk or hear, neither ignorantly nor absurdly, upon any subject; for I have known people, who have not said one word, hear ignorantly and absurdly; it has appeared by their inattentive and unmeaning faces.
man people
People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.
money people
In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.
trust information life
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
honor conscience truth
It is commonly said, and more particularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test of truth.
tests truth
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therfore one seldom does it at all.
truth thetimes time
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
truth
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
results nature self
Dispatch is the soul of business.
business
manners enemies thetimes time
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.
thetimes time
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.
man thetimes time
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