QUOTES by Philip Stanhope
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
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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.
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
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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.
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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
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Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person.
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
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Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
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If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
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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.
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.
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Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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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.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
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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.
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Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
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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. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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