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The Entire PG Edition of Chesterfield …..[LC#11][lcewk10.txt]3261
Complete Letters to His Son ……………[LC#11][lc11s10.txt]3361
Letters To His Son 1766-71, ……………[LC#10][lc10s10.txt]3360
Letters To His Son 1759-65, ……………[LC#09][lc09s10.txt]3359
Letters To His Son 1756-58, ……………[LC#08][lc08s10.txt]3358
Letters To His Son 1753-54, ……………[LC#07][lc07s10.txt]3357
Letters To His Son 1752, ………………[LC#06][lc06s10.txt]3356
Letters To His Son 1751, ………………[LC#05][lc05s10.txt]3355
Letters To His Son 1750, ………………[LC#04][lc04s10.txt]3354
Letters To His Son 1749, ………………[LC#03][lc03s10.txt]3353
Letters To His Son 1748, ………………[LC#02][lc02s10.txt]3352
Letters To His Son 1746-47, ……………[LC#01][lc01s10.txt]3351
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LETTERS TO HIS SON, 1746-47
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DEAR BOY: There is nothing which I more wish that you should know, andwhich fewer people do know, than the true use and value of time. It isin everybody's mouth; but in few people's practice.
Have a real reserve with almost everybody; and have a seeming reservewith almost nobody; for it is very disagreeable to seem reserved, andvery dangerous not to be so. Few people find the true medium; many areridiculously mysterious and reserved upon trifles; and many imprudentlycommunicative of all they know.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less,than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; (theywill both fall into the ditch.) The only sure guide is, he who has oftengone the road which you want to go.
People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their
opinion of you, upon that which they have of your friends; and there