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"Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table-it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket-that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep."
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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."
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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."
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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."
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"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
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"Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
Habit

"To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion? There is nobody-here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone."
Solitude

"For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?"
Time

"Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these - 'Chloe liked Olivia'. Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."
Creativity

"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
Truth

"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."
People

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
History

"The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers."
War

"They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought, and no doubt if you are of a mystical tendency, consolation, and even explanation, shower down from the unbroken surface."
Nature

"The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly excited at the thought of living."
Identity
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