Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 72 pages of information about Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 72 pages of information about Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1753-54.

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According as their interest prompts them to wish
Acquainted with books, and an absolute stranger to men
Affectation of singularity or superiority
All have senses to be gratified
Bolingbroke
Business by no means forbids pleasures
Clamorers triumph
Doing anything that will deserve to be written
Ears to hear, but not sense enough to judge
Ere tittering youth shall Shove you from the Stage
Frederick
Good manners are the settled medium of social life
Good reasons alleged are seldom the true ones
Holiday eloquence
I know myself (no common piece of knowledge, let me tell you)
Indolence
INTOLERATION in religious, and inhospitality in civil matters
Kick him upstairs
King Louis XIV
Look upon indolence as a sort of suicide
Manner is almost everything, in everything
Many are very willing, and very few able
Perseverance has surprising effects
Pettish, pouting conduct is a great deal too young
Reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does
Rendering Jews capable of being naturalized
Rochefoucault
Singularity is only pardonable in old age
Smile, where you cannot strike
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them
Too like, and too exact a picture of human nature
Vanity, interest, and absurdity, always display
Warm and young thanks, not old and cold ones
Writing anything that may deserve to be read
Young men are as apt to think themselves wise enough
Young people are very apt to overrate both men and things

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