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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad."
"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories."
"Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?"
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
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