Quote by Lord Chesterfield
Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth,

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. – Lord Chesterfield

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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. – Lord Chesterfield

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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Proverb

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If vanity does not overthrow all our virtues, at least she makes them totter. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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