…he laughed at and ridiculed all notions of Publick virtue, and the love of one’s Country, calling them the Chimerical school boy flights of Classical learning.
…he was an easy and profuse dupe of women, and in some instances indecently so.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, of Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister, who ruled England for 20 years of prosperity.
[no, this quote is not directly related to story of "open marriage proposal" of Newt Gingrich. Just an FYI and a propos to an age-old issue of principles declared vs.acted upon ]
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