A mind full of details devotes itself to the management and regulation… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
SAPIR 861
A mind full of details devotes itself to the management and regulation of the smallest particulars it meets with. This distinction is usually limited to little matters, yet it is not absolutely incompatible with greatness, and when these two qualities are united in the same mind they raise it infinitely above others.
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