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“I've heard myself say that I'm quite charming and not at all a bad sort of fellow, so you can be absolutely certain it's…

— Nicole Sager

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

“I felt slightl superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“I am civilised. My feelings are not.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It's not about being educated, it's about being civilised.”

— Deepak Madhu Nair

“Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than…

— Sir Walter Scott

“Unkindness and superficiality frustrate you when they never did before.”

— Peace

“I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.”

— Robert Burns

“The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when…

— Daniel Keyes

“...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.”

— Lee Doren

“I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. The funny part is, I'm not sophisticated. I'm not anything. I'm just me.”

— J.D. Salinger