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"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."
"A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner."
"Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone."
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"Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago."
"Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science."
"If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress."
"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
"It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis."
"It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible."
"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
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