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"As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand."
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"In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education."
Education
"A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race."
Accomplishment
"How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!"
Food
"For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind."
Happiness
"But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect."
Income
"It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves."
Skepticism
"The idea of bringing young people up to Literature is doubtless calculated to raise the eyebrows almost as much as the suggestion of bringing them up to the Stage."
People
"One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend."
Friendship
"Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends."
Friendship
"The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect."
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"If 'pratikraman' happens immediately [as the mistake happen], then it will bring one in the state of God (Bhagwan-pad)."
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"Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them."
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"It's just a mistake, you understand you don't ya??... and Hello, father 33 days from your dead!"
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"Never mind the mistakes. One day they will become your most prized possessions."
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"No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction."
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"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right."
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"We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues."
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"A mistake is a stepping stone to success."
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"I made a lot of mistakes, one of them was to promise. I must stop promise, the promise is like something which you in everytime in any case you must do what you said you will do! - That's why I hate it!"
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"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
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