George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton quotes
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“How much the wife is dearer than the bride.”
-- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonSource : "An Irregular Ode", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 868-71, 1922.
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“Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.”
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“A cunning woman is a knavish fool.”
-- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonSource : "Advice to a Lady". Poem by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, 1731.
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“To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.”
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“Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known.”
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“A woman's noblest station is retreat.”
-- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
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