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Lord Chesterfield

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

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A weak mind focuses too much on small, unimportant details and makes them seem bigger than they are. At the same time, it struggles to understand or handle big, important ideas.

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