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The Humours of a Fair, or, a Description of the Early Amusements in Life, Edinburgh, 1819
See here’s drunken Will,
Who did nothing but swill,
Pray hiss at the fool as you pass;
He has spent all his pence,
He has lost all his sense,
And is now dwindled down to an ass.
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The Humours of a Fair, or, a Description of the Early Amusements in Life, Edinburgh, 1819
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The Picture Gallery; or, Peter Prim’s Portraits of Good and Bad Girls and Boys, London, 1814
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The Picture Gallery; or, Peter Prim’s Portraits of Good and Bad Girls and Boys, London, 1814
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The Picture Gallery; or, Peter Prim’s Portraits of Good and Bad Girls and Boys, London, 1814
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The Picture Gallery; or, Peter Prim’s Portraits of Good and Bad Girls and Boys, London, 1814
Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
…if, in studying a problem in his closet, he were to think of a minuet, I am apt to believe that he would make a very poor mathematician.
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
…we should be as easy and natural as if we had no clothes on at all.
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
I cannot likewise avoid calling playing upon any musical instrument illiberal in a gentleman.
Music is usually reconed one of the liberal arts, and not unjustly; but a man of fashion who is seen piping or fiddling at a concert degrades his own dignity.
If you love music, hear it; pay fiddlers to play to you, but never fiddle yourself.
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
For example: if, instead of saying that “tastes are different, and that every man has his own peculiar one,” you should let off a proverb, and say, that “what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison:” or else, “everyone as they like, as the good man said when he kissed his cow” everybody would be persuaded that you had never kept company with anybody above footmen and house-maids.
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Lord Chesterfield’s Advice to His Son, On Men and Manners: or, A New System of Education,
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, 1815
I would rather be in company with a dead man, than with an absent one: for if the dead man affords me no pleasure, at least he shews me no contempt; whereas the absent man very plainly, though silently, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.
