 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 σελίδες
...uncharitable, unchristian. — THACKERAY. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. Learning. — Wear your learning like your watch,...out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. — CHESTERFIELD. He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1897 - 168 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are 5 asked what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.... | |
 | 1900 - 484 σελίδες
...too much familiarity, genteel without affectation, and insinuating without any seeming art or design. How " TO WEAR " LEARNING Wear your learning like your...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. METHOD AND MANNER The manner of doing things is often more important than the things themselves ; and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - 1901 - 514 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Upon the whole, remember that learning (I mean Greek and Roman learning) is a most useful and necessary... | |
 | 1902 - 508 σελίδες
...too much familiarity, genteel without affectation, and insinuating without any seeming art or design. How "TO WEAR" LEARNING Wear your learning like your...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. METHOD AND MANNER The manner of doing things is often more important than the things themselves ; and... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1902 - 310 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other. Never seem wiser nor more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. XXI. THE GRACES. -THE ABSURDITY OF LAUGHTER. BATH, March 9, os 1748. DEAR BOY, — I must from time... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - 1902 - 308 σελίδες
...faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history. — LONGFELLOW. 17. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. — LORD CHESTERFIELD. 1 8. Who ever saw any such embroidery which could compare with the beauty of... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 288 σελίδες
...many more people see than weigh. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. It is hard to say which is the greater fool, he who tells the whole truth or he who tells no truth... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 σελίδες
...like your watch, in a private pocket. — Do not pnll it ont merely to show that you have one. — If sest with on error it is like a devil, only coot out with great difficulty. Whatsoever he lays ho — Chfuterßeld. No man can ever lack this mortification of his vanity, that what he knows is bnt... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 σελίδες
...like your watch, in a private pocket. — Do not pull it out merely to show that yon have one. — If er how — Chesterfield. No man can ever lack this mortification of Ms vanity, that what he knows is but a... | |
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Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket : and do not pull it out and strike it ; merely to show that you have one. 
