Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but ...woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My idea of good company ... is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I c...all good company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had said to Mrs. Boscawen at table, "I believe this is about as much as can be made of life." I was really happy. My gay ideas o...f London in youth were realized and consolidated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can; ...but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good compan...y; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charg...ed up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 »