"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."

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Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.

— Lord Chesterfield