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"Learn to process what happens as a positive."

"The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations."

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"It is better to be positive than negative."
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"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."

"And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust."

"I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?"

"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."

"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948."
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