"It is to be presumed, that a man……" — Philip Dormer Stanhope
"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 he cannot obtain anything without it."
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8 Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope
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The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I…
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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,…
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His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But…
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A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but…
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and…
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Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit…
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For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for…
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