QUOTES by Philip Stanhope
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Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
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Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
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A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.
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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
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It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.
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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.
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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
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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.
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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
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Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
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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 branches of the regimen of health.
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I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
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There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
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Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
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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.
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours 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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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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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 give it up as unattainable.
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