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“Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.”

Littles Art Different Enjoy Rooms Company Painting Please Listeners Symphony

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.”

People Men Mean Deals Mistake Company Please Mets Universal Blame Intention Liars Usual Falsehood Delighted Marvellous

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.”

People Ifs Long Whole Care Pay Company Talking Cases Please Treats Convinced Treated Tire Reckoning

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.”

Persons Social Enjoy Company Situation Audience Please Praise Favors Admire Welcome Excellent Flattery Promotion Rivals Applause Banquets Reciprocal Flatterer

Book:In Praise of Flattery

Source: In Praise of Flattery

“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.”

Thinking May Littles Long Two War Sometimes Body Moving Games Differences Numbers Company Known Position Depends Please Stronger Chess Division Relative Troops Equipment Knights Pawns

Author:Leo Tolstoy