Best quotes by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield on Man
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‟ Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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‟ Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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‟ If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
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‟ I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
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‟ A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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‟ The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
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‟ Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield