Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
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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
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Lord Chesterfield
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
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
Lord Chesterfield
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
Lord Chesterfield
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