I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my… - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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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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He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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