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Attention and civility please all

Avoid singularity

Blindness of the understanding is as much to be pitied

Choose your pleasures for yourself

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others

Complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses

Contempt

Disagreeable to seem reserved, and very dangerous not to be so

Do as you would be done by

Do what you are about

Dress well, and not too well

Dressed like the reasonable people of your own age

Easy without too much familiarity

Employ your whole time, which few people do

Exalt the gentle in woman and man--above the merely genteel

Eyes and ears open and mouth mostly shut

Fit to live--or not live at all

Flexibility of manners is necessary in the course of the world

Genteel without affectation

Geography and history are very imperfect separately

Good-breeding

Gratitude not being universal, nor even common

Greatest fools are the greatest liars

He that is gentil doeth gentil deeds

If once we quarrel, I will never forgive

Injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult

Judge of every man's truth by his degree of understanding

Knowing any language imperfectly

Knowledge: either despise it, or think that they have enough

Labor is the unavoidable fatigue of a necessary journey

Let nothing pass till you understand it

Life of ignorance is not only a very contemptible, but tiresome

Listlessness and indolence are always blameable

Make a great difference between companions and friends

Make himself whatever he pleases, except a good poet

Merit and good-breeding will make their way everywhere

Never maintain an argument with heat and clamor

Observe, without being thought an observer

Only doing one thing at a time

Pay them with compliments, but not with confidence

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon

Pride of being the first of the company

Real friendship is a slow grower

Receive them with great civility, but with great incredulity

Recommend it(pleasure) to you, like an Epicurean

Respectful without meanness, easy without too much familiarity

Scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow

Sentiment-mongers

State your difficulties, whenever you have any

Studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest women in the world

Sure guide is, he who has often gone the road which you want to

Talk of natural affection is talking nonsense

TELL ME WHO YOU LIVE WITH AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE

Thing so precious as time, and so irrecoverable when lost

True use and value of time

Unguarded frankness

Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well

Wrapped up and absorbed in their abstruse speculations

Young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind

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