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Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to His Son. 10 Mar. 1746.

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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to Arthur Charles Stanhope. 12 Oct. 1765.

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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 4 Oct. 1746.

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Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 1 July 1748.

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Those who travel heedlessly from place to place, observing only their distance from each other and attending only to their accommodation at the inn at night, set out fools, and will certainly return so.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 30 Oct. 1747.

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Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 16 Oct. 1747.

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Take the tone of the company, that you are in.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 16 Oct. 1747.

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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 9 Oct. 1746.

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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Letter to his son. 19 Oct. 1748.

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The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

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On sex.

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Stanhope, Philip Dormer. Stated to his son, Philip Stanhope. c. 1773.

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