Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

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Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

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About Philip Dormer Stanhope

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.

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There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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

Ridicule is the best test of truth.