Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.


Lord Chesterfield's Letters (ed. OUP Oxford, 1998) - ISBN: 9780191605901


To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.