Philip Dormer Stanhope Quotes
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The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that…
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In private life he was good-natured, chearful, social; inelegant in his manners, loose in his morals. He had a coarse, strong wit, which he was…
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His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and…
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A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak…
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in…
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Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion…
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It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since hemust know that…
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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives…
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