Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.
Few people do business well, who do nothing else.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.