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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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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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Lord Chesterfield
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield

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Travel
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Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. – Lord Chesterfield

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Dance, Dancing
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I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next. – A.A. Milne

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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. – T.S. Eliot

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Spirituality is… the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself. – Author Unknown

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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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Miscellaneous

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Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that’s what my grandma taught me. – Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Jennie

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