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"There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."

"It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment."

"I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter."

"The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect."

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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