Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

—Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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About Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Portrait of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British politician, diplomat and writer.

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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

—Aldo Leopold

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I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.… I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good-for-nothing, and hardly any women at all.

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Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

—Samuel Johnson

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