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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
When thou art in the Company of Ladies behave civilly, and shew good Breeding. They will easily pardon a Man’s Want of Sense, but rarely his Want of Manners.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2214 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
When thou art in the Company of Ladies behave civilly, and shew good Breeding. They will easily pardon a Man’s Want of Sense, but rarely his Want of Manners.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2214 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badmanners #boorishness #grossness #impoliteness #manners #men #rudeness #unattractiveness #women
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
When thou art in the Company of Ladies behave civilly, and shew good Breeding. They will easily pardon a Man’s Want of Sense, but rarely his Want of Manners.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2214 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badmanners #boorishness #grossness #impoliteness #manners #men #rudeness #unattractiveness #women
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A quotation from Thomas Fuller
When thou art in the Company of Ladies behave civilly, and shew good Breeding. They will easily pardon a Man’s Want of Sense, but rarely his Want of Manners.
Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 2214 (1727)More info about this quote: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasfuller #badmanners #boorishness #grossness #impoliteness #manners #men #rudeness #unattractiveness #women
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Nothing is more frightful than imagination without taste.
[Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), #489]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/goethe-johann/4900/
#quote #quotes #quotation #creativity #decor #fashion #imagination #taste #tastelessness #inelegance #insipidity #grossness #coarseness