Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.

Philip Stanhope
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More Quotes By Philip Stanhope
  1. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

  2. Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

  3. Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

  4. Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

  5. Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

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