What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supr… - George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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What is your sex's earliest, latest care,
Your heart's supreme ambition?—To be fair.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (January 17 1709 – August 24 1773), known as Sir George Lyttelton, Baronet between 1751 and 1756, was a British politician and statesman and a patron of the arts.

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Pen Names: Friend in the country

Alternative Names: George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley • George Lyttelton, Baron Lyttelton

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For his chaste Muse employ'd her heaven-taught lyre
None but the noblest passions to inspire,
Not one immoral, one corrupted thought,
One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; </br> A woman’s noblest station is retreat.

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel;
Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Your heart's supreme ambition?—To be fair. - George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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