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The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

Lord Chesterfield
Funny, Marriage, Drinking
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.254

I can hardly bring myself to caution you against drinking, because I am persuaded that I am writing to a rational creature, a gentleman, and not to a swine. However, that you may not be insensibly drawn into that beastly custom of even sober drinking and sipping, as the sots call it, I advise you to be of no club whatsoever.

Lord Chesterfield
Drinking, Writing, Gentleman
Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.416, OUP Oxford

Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

Lord Chesterfield
Running, Drinking, Loss

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

Lord Chesterfield
Drinking, Wine, Character

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