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> [Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/americans-cannot-realize-how-many-chances-for-mental-improvement-they/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

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## More by Ernest Dimnet

> [Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/americans-cannot-realize-how-many-chances-for-mental-improvement-they/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/mankind-might-be-divided-between-multitude-who-hate-to-be-kept/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/the-history-of-the-past-interests-us-only-in-so-far-as-it-illuminates/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Ideas are the roots of creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/ideas-are-the-roots-of-creation/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/education-is-the-methodical-creation-of-the-habit-of-thinking/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/whatever-we-read-from-intense-curiosity-gives-us-the-model-of-how-we/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/architecture-of-all-the-arts-is-the-one-which-acts-the-most-slowly/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/the-happiness-of-most-people-we-know-is-not-ruined-by-great/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/learn-to-attack-things-frontally-but-according-to-the-most-scientific/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/most-people-suspend-their-judgment-till-somebody-else-has-expressed/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/prejudices-subsist-in-people-s-imagination-long-after-they-have-been/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/the-happiness-of-most-people-is-not-ruined-by-great-catastrophes-or/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Ideas are the root of creation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/ideas-are-the-root-of-creation/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/reading-to-most-people-means-an-ashamed-way-of-killing-time-disguised/)

[Ernest Dimnet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-dimnet/)

> [A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-dimnet/a-school-is-a-place-through-which-you-have-to-pass-before-entering/)

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