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“I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.”

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Lord Chesterfield

British statesman known for his epistolary works, which had a profound impact on 18th-century British society. more

“Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Persons Matter Able Language Easy Natural Written Trouble Letters Regard Grammar

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.”

People Ifs Men Trying Littles Certain Wish Justice Grace Weakness Gains Affection Merit Dominant

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“You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people in the room--their motions, their looks and their words--and yet without staring at them and seeming to be an observer.”

People Should Looks Rooms Attention Observation Staring Observers Seeming Quickness

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Not to perceive the little weaknesses and the idle but innocent affectations of the company may be allowable as a sort of polite duty. The company will be pleased with you if you do, and most probably will not be reformed by you if you do not.”

Ifs May Littles Company Duty Weakness Innocent Perceive Idle Polite Politeness

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“Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.”

Firsts Self Natural Willing Compelled Politeness Recollection Abnegation

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“Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.”

Knows Feels Use Fiction Truth Is Tools How You Feel

Author:Margaret Atwood

“True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.”

Perfect Treated Ease Politeness Treating Others

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“Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.”

Taken Cost Paper Favors Pens Compliment Congratulations Ink Breeding Drawers Draught Good Breeding Ink And Paper

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“I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.”

Ifs Giving Years Wells Littles Made Care Age Young Sides Too Much Air Fine Fit Clothes Reflection Twenties Dresses Fellows Take Care Fifty Forty Excess Awkward Stink Fifty Year Olds

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

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