Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 22, 1694 - March 24, 1773

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I'm very much an Enlightenment kind of guy.

Jimmy Wales

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Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

Matt Taibbi

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We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

Jeff Tweedy

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More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady.

Amy Sedaris

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Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Ambrose Bierce

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I wash it every second day, and I use Kerastase shampoo and conditioner. I just stick to that. But I also have a mustache comb, and I shampoo and condition my mustache as well.

Steven Adams

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I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs.

Steven Pinker

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Unless any book is selling 30 million copies, like 'Fifty Shades of Grey' did, the big studios are not going to make movies out of them because the cost is too high.

Tosca Musk

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Sometimes when you are winning, you don't see your flaws; you don't see what you are not good at.

Robbie Lawler

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The No. 1 best-selling Christmas album of all time is from Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, the Jewish smooth-jazz legend Kenny G. American Jews have always produced a lot of holiday music, just not Hanukkah music.

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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

Mason Cooley

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Regardless of the industry, antitrust law is meant to benefit consumers - not competitors.

Marvin Ammori

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