 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1892 - 514 pages
...you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do, well. There is no one thing so trifling, but...other people if you can ; but do not tell them so. It ia a very fortunate thing for Sir Charles Hotham* to have fallen into the hands of one of your age,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1892 - 324 pages
...you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do, well. There is no one thing so trifling, but...other people if you can, but do not tell them so. [Dublin Castle, Nov. 19, I745.* ] THE PASSION—Wherever you would persuade or prevail, address yourself... | |
 | 1892 - 682 pages
...an Irish cabin. — Row Mulholland. 2. Diogenes was a wise man for despising little worldly customs, but a fool for showing it. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. — Lord Chesterfield. 3. If you would not be known to do anything, never do it. — Emerson. 4 Joy... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Letters - 1893 - 152 pages
...you a dancer, yet, when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do well. There is no one thing so trifling, but...other people, if you can ; but do not tell them so. Good-night. LETTER IX. DEAR BOY, Bath, October the 4th, 1746. THOUGH I employ so much of my time in... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1897 - 168 pages
...customs of this kind, which not being criminal must be complied with, and even cheerfully, by men of 5 sense. Diogenes the Cynic was a wise man for despising...to have fallen into the hands of one of your age, 10 experience, and knowledge of the world; I am persuaded you will take infinite care of him. Goodnight.... | |
 | Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. Alumni Association - 1907 - 334 pages
..." For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich." — TAMING OF THE SHREW THE NEW DOCTORS THE CLASS " Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so." — CHESTERFIELD FAREWELL REMINGTON SADTLER LOWE KRAEMER MOBRK LA WALL "We only part to meet again."... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...Fame, Satire II., line 281. " Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise." QUARLES. Emblems, Bk. II. " Be wiser than other people if you can ; but do not tell them so." LORD CHESTERFIELD. Letter to his Son. Dublin Castle, igth Nov., 1745. " Beauties are tyrants, and if... | |
 | 1900 - 484 pages
...you a dancer, yet when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do, well. There is no one thing so trifling, but...other people if you can, but do not tell them so. INATTENTION There is no surer sign in the world of a little, weak mind than inattention. Whatever is... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - Conduct of life - 1901 - 514 pages
...Cynic was a wise man for despising them ; but a fool for showing it. Be wiser than other people, it you can ; but do not tell them so. It is a very fortunate thing for Sir Charles Hotham,1 to have 1 [Sir Charles Hotham, Lord Chesterfield's nephew, succeeded to the baronetcy in 1737.... | |
 | Success - 1902 - 508 pages
...you a dancer, yet when you do dance, I would have you dance well, as I would have you do everything you do, well. There is no one thing so trifling, but...other people if you can, but do not tell them so. INATTENTION There is no surer sign in the world of a little, weak mind than inattention. Whatever is... | |
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For instance; dress is a very foolish thing; and yet it is a very foolish thing for a man not to be well dressed, according to his rank and way of life; and it is so far from being a disparagement to any man's understanding, that it is rather a proof... 
