Sacrifice to the Graces.
Lord Chesterfield
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
reading
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
imagination
The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
nations
Courts and camps are the only places to learn the world in.
places
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
rights
I assisted at the birth of that most significant word flirtation, which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
birth
grace
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
method
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
accident
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
misfortune
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
vices
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
manners
Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.
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