Lord Chesterfield Quotes about Children

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Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

Lord Chesterfield

Children, Women, Men

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

Lord Chesterfield

Children, Growth, Only Child

'Letters to his Son' (1774) 5 September 1748.

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Lord Chesterfield

Children, Men, Play

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.91, Oxford University Press