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Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Lord Chesterfield

Family, Father, Son

Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.

Lord Chesterfield

Husband, Son, Expression

Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.325, Oxford University Press

Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

Lord Chesterfield

Character, Son, Two

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.355