切斯特菲尔德勋爵致儿子（二）（4）
you vanity by observing his favorite topic of conversation; for every man talks most of ht to excel in. touch him but there, and you touch him to the quick, the late sir robert ht to have a polite and happy turn to gallantry—of . it eneral, but one object, ross for them to folloly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must, in some degree, be conscious of it, her figure and air, she trusts, make ample amends for it. if her figure is deformed, her face, she thinks, counterbalances it. if they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces; a certain manner; a je ne scais quoi still more engaging than beauty. this truth is evident, from the studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest ed to nobody for giving it her. she must be flattered upon her understanding, h she may possibly not doubt of herself, yet she suspects that men may distrust.
do not mistake me, and think that i mean to recommend to you abject and criminal flattery: no; flatter nobody's vices or crimes: on the contrary, abhor and discourage them. but there is no living in the ence for people's h ridiculous vanities. if a man has a mind to be thought ard to other people; and i ing them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.
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