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While in the nineteenth century you [Englishmen] have been occupied in consolidating an empire, conquering new countries, and spreading civilization to all parts of the world, you have in true British magnanimity forgotten to confer this blessing upon yourselves.

— 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.

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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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