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An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

Lord Chesterfield
Love, Marriage, Girl

You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.

Lord Chesterfield
Love, Hate, Silly

Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it. Some spoil them when they are young, and then quarrel with them when they are grown up, for having been spoiled; some love them like mothers, and attend only to the bodily health and strength of the hopes of their family, solemnize his birthday, and rejoice, like the subjects of the Great Mogul, at the increase of his bulk: while others, minding, as they think, only essentials, take pains and pleasure to see in their heir, all their favourite weaknesses and imperfections.

Lord Chesterfield
Love, Family, Mother
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.459

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Lord Chesterfield
Love, People, Pox
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.466

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

Lord Chesterfield
Love, Friendship, Heart

Men have various subjects in which they may excel, or at least would be thought to excel, and though they love to hear justice done to them where they know they excel, yet they are most and best flattered upon those points where they wish to excel and yet are doubtful whether they do or not.

Lord Chesterfield
Love, Men, Justice
Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.100, OUP Oxford

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