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Lord Chesterfield’s watch

In a series of letters to his illegitimate son that have become famous, Lord Chesterfield compares one’s knowledge to (more…)

Behaving in conversation

Montaigne compared conversation to (more…)

Writing and running

I’ve got a reputation for ‘speaking well’, but the fact is, when people tell me so, it is often easy to detect a certain bitter feeling in their praise. Where does it come it from? Well, the immediate guess is (more…)

Cage if you care

One of the main problems you can encounter in teamwork is what is usually called “highly emotional (more…)

Pedantry

In terms of energy consumption, pedantry is an outrage. It could be defined as an inflammation of language in which a lot of resources are invested in saying quite little, sometimes even nothing. (more…)