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

— 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.

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

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

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

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

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