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Quotations
On Company
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- Nature
has
left every man a
capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and
there
are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few
faults,
that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as
tolerable.—SWIFT.
- It is
certain that either wise
bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases one of
another;
therefore, let men take heed of their company.—SHAKESPEARE.
- The
most
agreeable of all companions
is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive
greatness;
one who loves life, and understands the use of it; obliging alike at
all
hours; above all, of a golden temper and steadfast as an anchor. For
such
an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit,
the profoundest thinker.—LESSING.
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- No man
can
possibly improve
in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some
degree
of restraint. —CHESTERFIELD.
- A
companion is but another self;
wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company
with
the wicked.—ST. CLEMENT.
- Let
them
have ever so learned
lectures of breeding, that which will most influence their carriage
will
be the company they converse with, and the fashion of those about
them.—LOCKE.
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