The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Never hold any one by the button or the hand in order to be heard out for if people are unwilling to hear you you had better hold your tongue than them.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.
Few men are of one plain decided colour most are mixed shaded and blended and vary as much from different situations as changeable silks do from different lights.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one...
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
If you would convince others seem open to conviction yourself.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary br...
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 gi...
Idleness is the holiday of fools.
There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.
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