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" A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. "

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" The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. "

" Woman absent is woman dead. "

" No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. "

" So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong. "

" Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. "

" The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. "

" What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. "

" Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. "

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" The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. "

" A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. "

" An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft. "

" An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. "

" A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. "

" The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. "

" It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. "

" Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. "

" In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. "

" A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "

" Life is a school of probability. "

" Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. "

" No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. "

" The real essence of work is concentrated energy. "

" Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. "

" An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. "

" A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. "

" The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. "

" All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. "

" A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment. "