Letters, Sentences and Maxims
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield is the author of Letters, Sentences and Maxims. A passage says to neither retail nor receive scandal willingly, and says that in the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. A passage says mimicry, the common and favorite amusement of little, low minds, is in the utmost contempt with great ones.
A passage quotes Chesterfield writing many years afterward that he came determined to proscribe no set of persons whatever, and determined to be governed by none. A passage says that if you publish your own panegyric upon any occasion or in any shape whatsoever, however artfully dressed or disguised, they will all conspire against you. A passage advises never to apply for what you see very little probability of obtaining, since asking improper and unattainable things accustoms the ministers to refuse you so often.
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