“People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.”
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady
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Famous Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Quotes
“Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.”
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady
“The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.”
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady
Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman. Illustrated by Six Female Portraits, from Drawings by E. T. Parris