“ The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future. ”
- Henry Lawson- Copy
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“ It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ”
- Joseph De Maistre- Copy
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“ The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ Common sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ When a subject is highly controversial… one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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