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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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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. – Lord Chesterfield

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Experience
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Lord Chesterfield
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In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief. – Lord Chesterfield

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Shame
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In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybodys torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. – Lord Chesterfield

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Religion
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. – Chinese Proverb

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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius Antonius

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No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus. – Cicero

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To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others. – Buddha

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Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential. – Anna Gould

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When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself. – Jerry Seinfeld

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Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, “On the Pitying,” Thus Spake Zarathustra

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In time we hate that which we often fear. – William Shakespeare

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