This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts.
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Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.Benjamin Haydon
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
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When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
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Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation the next to keep it while you live and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name.
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