Quote #7

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

More from Philip Stanhope

  1. The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
  2. 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…
  3. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
  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. Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
  6. The dews of the evening most carefully shun - Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
  7. Take the tone of the company you are in.
  8. Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.

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