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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield on Wedding

1694–1773 England

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

Marriage is the cure of love, and friendship the cure of marriage.

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