| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Letters - 1893 - 152 pages
...but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit every... | |
| Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 564 pages
...do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit every... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit every... | |
| 1900 - 484 pages
...but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt, and very short. Omit every... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope - Conduct of life - 1901 - 514 pages
...but do not treat the whole company, this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to RayTell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit... | |
| Success - 1902 - 508 pages
...but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt, and very short. Omit every... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1902 - 310 pages
...do not treat the whole company, — this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit every... | |
| Engineer's Club of St. Louis - Engineering - 1924 - 410 pages
...but do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay. Tell stories seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit even' circumstance... | |
| George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...but do not treat the whole company, this being one of the very few cases in which people do not care leTHrnshTngTt; not yetVeTy'oU, at the agnjf^nTty-six;—broken-hearted rather, Tell stories very seldom, and absolutely never but where they are very apt and very short. Omit every... | |
| English literature - 1855 - 622 pages
...do not treat the whole company ; this being one of the ' very few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every ' one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.' His favourite maxim (copied from Swift) was ' take as many half' minutes as you can get, but never talk... | |
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