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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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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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