“Take the tone of the company you are in.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
16 October 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“Learn to take on the tone of whatever company you find yourself in.”
Lerne den Ton der Gesellschaft anzunehmen, in der du dich befindest.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
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