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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘remember never to be ashamed of doing what is right!’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘…an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.’

Quotes from Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773) the ‘Earl of Chesterfield’ published 1774

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘I make use only of the word “advice," because I would much rather have the assent of your reason to my advice than the submission of your will to my authority.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘There is nothing which I more wish that you should know, and which fewer people do know, than the true use and value of Time.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘Never maintain an argument with heat and clamor, though you think or know yourself to be in the right, but give your opinion modestly and coolly, which is the only way to convince; and if that does not do, try to change the conversation’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘Remember to make a great difference between companions and friends; for a very complaisant and agreeable companion may, and often does, prove a very improper and a very dangerous friend.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘A man of pleasure, in the vulgar acceptation of that phrase means only a beastly drunkard, an abandoned rake and a profligate swearer and curser.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘I bid you strike at the passions; and if you do, you too will prevail. If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity; ambition, - or whichever is their prevailing passion, on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘Of all things banish the egotism out of your conversation, and never think of entertaining people with your own personal concerns or private affairs. Though they are interesting to you, they are tedious and impertinent to everybody else.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon. They launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘One must be extremely exact, clear, and perspicuous in everything one says; otherwise instead of entertaining or informing others, one only tires and puzzles them.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘want of attention, which is really want of thought, is either folly or madness.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘However frivolous a company may be, still while you are among them, do not show them by your inattention that you think them so; but rather take their tone, and conform in some degree to their weakness, instead of manifesting your contempt for them.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘I need not tell you how rude it is to take the best place in a room, or to seize immediately upon what you like at table, without offering first to help others, - as if you considered nobody but yourself.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘it is always extremely rude to answer only Yes, or No, to anybody, without adding Sir, My Lord, or Madam, according to the quality of the person you speak to’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘Judge of individuals from your own knowledge of them, and not from their sex, profession, or denomination’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘Mind not only what people say but how they say it; and if you have any sagacity, you may discover more truth by your eyes than by your ears.’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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‘remember never to be ashamed of doing what is right!’

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HarryHolt1791 · @HarryHolt1791
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In addition to Holt’s formal education he took great instruction on how to be a ‘polite man in society' from Lord Chesterfield’s Letters (1741-1770) I will share my favourite observations and lessons from Phillip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of ) as we go. ()

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