"The herd of mankind can hardly be said……" — Philip Dormer Stanhope
"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 it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separatereasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are."
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Philip Dormer Stanhope
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8 Quotes by Philip Dormer Stanhope
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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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It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at…
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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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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while…
— Edward Albee
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Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of…
— George W. Bush
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To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are…
— Stephen Reinhardt
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As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing…
— Dennis Cardoza
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I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the…
— Rodney Atkins
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Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding…
— Michael Gove
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Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child…
— John McCain
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My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter…
— Katherine Heigl
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Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible…
— Pat Robertson
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She turned back to Jace. "Do you have to be so-," she began, but stopped when she saw his face.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and…
— Cassandra Clare
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I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe…
— Ilona Andrews
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