A man of sense soon discovers, because he carefully observes, where and how long he is welcome; and takes care to leave the compan...y at least as soon as he is wished out of it. Fools never perceive whether they are ill timed or ill placed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing wi...th more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, a...t least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbors;... Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on the head for his labors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He promised that life would go on as usual,... that treaties would be signed, and everyone-- man, woman and child--would be inoculate against a world in which we had no part, a world of money, promise and disease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself a...gainst me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »