Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quote

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.


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


A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither...

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither...

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither...

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither...