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German erudition of his time he held in little esteem. “They go to work like galley slaves,” was his charge. “They do not write on a theme because inspired; but the theme comes first, and with assiduous and laborious study they hope to evolve something brilliant out of it.”

— Oscar Levy The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

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With the great quality of egoism, great deeds and great merits became extinct.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

“Oh ! the years I have lost,” will be the exclamation of a man, if he be not philosophical, and not possess Friedrich Nietzsche’s appreciation of the value of sorrow in education.

The Revival of Aristocracy (1906)

In spite of my attack on Christianity: the Englishman who is a Christian is very much nearer to my heart than he who is not.

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Surely it is not every one who is chosen to combat a religion or a morality of two thousand years’ standing, fist within and then without himself.

A man was wise if heavy and tardy, like all phlegmatic temperaments; learned if he wrote books with one eye on the public and the other on his colleague.

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