“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.”
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.