More from Philip Stanhope

  1. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
  2. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
  3. Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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, i…
  7. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of c…
  8. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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