There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without ge...
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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To believe your own thought to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than ...
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I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee,...
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It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each si...
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Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?
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Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, an...
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There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though th...
