Philip Stanhope Quotes
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
Philip Stanhope |
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Author Details: Type: Statesman Quotes Category: British Statesman Quotes Date of Birth: September 22, 1694 Date of Death: March 24, 1773 Nationality: British Amazon: Philip Stanhope on Amazon |
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Benjamin Disraeli Lord Chesterfield Cecil Rhodes John Lubbock Robert Walpole John Morley Henry John Temple Edward F. Halifax |
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Select Philip Stanhope Quotations: There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time. Philip Stanhope 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 It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut. Philip Stanhope In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable. Philip Stanhope A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest. Philip Stanhope Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can. Philip Stanhope Words, which are the dress of thoughts, deserve surely more care than clothes, which are only the dress of the person. Philip Stanhope |
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Quote Keywords: Best, Enjoy, Friends, Inferiority, Most, Their |
Dictionary Links: Best, Enjoy, Inferiority, Most, Their |
All Philip Stanhope Quotations: A young man, be his merit... Gratitude is a burden upon our... In the mass of mankind, I... It is always right to detect... Judgment is not upon all occasions... Most people enjoy the inferiority of... Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason... Politeness is as much concerned in... There is time enough for everything... Whoever incites anger has a strong... Women are only children of a... Words, which are the dress of... |
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