The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for … - Lord Chesterfield

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Lord Chesterfield

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

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