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Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

— Hugh Kingsmill The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

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The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and that no one is alive.

Skye High (1937)

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

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Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

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