"There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success."

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"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."

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"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end."

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"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."

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"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."

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"Nobody ever died of laughter."

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"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."

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"She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like."

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"Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter."

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"It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait."

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"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt."

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"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself."

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"I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

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"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

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