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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to… — Lord Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Lord Chesterfield
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible. — Lord Chesterfield
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance… — Lord Chesterfield
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, and there was no… — Julia Child
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter.… — Julia Child
I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well. — Lee Child
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay… — Shirley Chisholm
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor. — Margaret Cho

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