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“Style is the dress of thoughts.”

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

24 November 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.”

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Sacrifice to the Graces.”

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. ”

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

“We must not draw general conclusions from certain particular principles, though, in the main, true ones. We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will therefore always act rationally; or, because he has such or such a predominant passion, that he will act invariably and consequentially in the pursuit of it. No. We are complicated machines: and though we have one main-spring, that gives motion to the whole, we have an infinity of little wheels, which, in their turns, retard, precipitate, and sometimes stop that motion.”

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)