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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.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
If you can once engage people’s pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.