“As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.