Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.


Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (ed. 1827)


To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.