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If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of chil...more

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It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a ...more

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The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

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Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

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Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).