Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Counsels and Maxims
Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact. A Woman of No Importance
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. Book II
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Book VII
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