Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 60 pages of information about Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 60 pages of information about Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47.
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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