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"It's very silly of you to be so sensitive about your club-foot," she said. She saw him bush darkly, but went on. "You know, people don't think about it nearly as much as you do. They notice it the first time they see you, and then they
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“Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“Robin turned and looked straight into her. “What’s life for?” “I don’t know.” “I don’t either. But I don’t think it’s about winning.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
“Only literature can grant you access to a spirit from beyond the grave—a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you’d have in conversation with a friend.”
― Submission
― Submission
“We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.”
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
― The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
“Polemical energy is wasted on showing that liberalism’s aims and ideals are narrowly Western, secular-Enlightened, bourgeois-individualist, procapitalist or—to use a fashionable term of abuse—rootlessly cosmopolitan. None of these slurs or labels stick. No sect or party owns liberalism’s aims and ideals. They serve every nation, gender and class. If that brands liberals as universalists, so be it. They may wear their scarlet “U” with pride.”
― Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
― Liberalism: The Life of an Idea
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