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Deep learning will make you acceptable to the learned; but it is only an obliging and easy behaviour, and entertaining conversation, that will make you agreeable to all companies.
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Learning is like bank-notes: prudence and good behaviour are like silver, useful upon all occasions.
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There is hardly any bodily blemish which a winning behaviour will not conceal, or make tolerable; and there is no external grace which ill-nature or affectation will not deform.
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The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet
James Burgh
Born:
1714
Died:
1775
(aged 61)
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