More from Philip Stanhope

  1. Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
  2. Style is the dress of thoughts.
  3. Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who…
  4. Dispatch is the soul of business.
  5. 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…
  6. Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
  7. 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.
  8. Let blockheads read what blockheads write.

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