5 Philip Stanhope Quotes on Behavior

Philip Stanhope quotes on behavior

7. An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

11. Take the tone of the company you are in.

14. 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.

25. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.

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28. Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, waggery, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.