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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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"We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing."
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"Wonder exist in every act of life."
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"Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms-such things do exist. They're called books."
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"Lights twinkled in little casements; which lights, as the casements darkened, and more stars came out, seemed to have shot up into the sky instead of having been extinguished."
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"A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!"
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"The table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise."
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"We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders."
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"We salute the Brain, that made the Plane and the Train, But who made the Brain?"
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"The wonder of life shouldn't be squandered on insignificant or unbeneficial experiences."
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"It is as if we need to be reminded of convention in order properly to appreciate the wonder of being unguarded..."
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"People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way."
Empathy
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
Mind
"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
Fear
"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
Taste
"All the best stories 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."
Reality
"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
Self-Awareness
"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
Ambition
"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
Education
"When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory."
Life
"Man, an animal that makes bargains."
Man
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