Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
From Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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.
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.
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
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.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
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