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"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
Writing
"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
Government
"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."
Society
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
Courage
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
Work
"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."
Man
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"Life is a school of probability."
Life
"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
Mistake
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