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A nation does wisely, if not well, in starving her men of genius. Fatten them, and they are done for.

— Charles Buxton Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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Nothing gives life a finer touch of grace, than the presence in the family circle of a lovely girl of seventeen.

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.

Notes of Thought (1883)

Women see through and through each other; and often we most admire her whom they most scorn.

Notes of Thought (1883)

The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Notes of Thought (1883)

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

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