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> [The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/the-grinding-of-the-intellect-is-for-most-people-as-painful-as-a/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

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> [The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/the-grinding-of-the-intellect-is-for-most-people-as-painful-as-a-2/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

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## More by Leonard Woolf

> [“One must be crucified on one’s own private cross.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/one-must-be-crucified-on-one-s-own-private-cross/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/the-grinding-of-the-intellect-is-for-most-people-as-painful-as-a/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/leonard-woolf-in-a-letter-to-lytton-strachey-said-he-hated-john/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/anyone-can-be-a-barbarian-it-requires-a-terrible-effort-to-remain-a/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/the-grinding-of-the-intellect-is-for-most-people-as-painful-as-a-2/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/life-is-not-an-orderly-progression-self-contained-like-a-musical/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/at-the-best-and-even-unexpurgated-diaries-give-a-distorted-or-one/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/you-can-t-love-by-desiring-an-extremely-vague-desire-of-a-very-vague/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

> [“Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leonard-woolf/suddenly-i-heard-virginia-s-voice-calling-to-me-from-the-sitting-room/)

[Leonard Woolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leonard-woolf/)

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