Quote by Lord Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. – Lord Chesterfield

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Fear
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Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something. – Lord Chesterfield

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Health
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The mere brute pleasure of reading — the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. – Lord Chesterfield

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Books
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Nature has placed man under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. – Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation, 1789

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Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts. – Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, 1969

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A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – Tim Cahill

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