I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.

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About Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.

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Alternative Names: Philip Dormer Stanhope Lord Stanhope Filip Dormer Çesterfild Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

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