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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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Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. – 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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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. – Lord Chesterfield

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