Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
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When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!Edward Carpenter
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
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IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.
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The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
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Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
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For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.
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