"On the whole, the world was friendly. It……" — Georg Brandes
"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
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38 Quotes by Georg Brandes
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
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The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
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It is useless to send armies against ideas.
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Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.
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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity....
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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my…
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When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
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School is a foretaste of life.
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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life…
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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been…
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More Chiefly Quotes
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to…
— William Ellery Channing
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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our…
— Jerry Bridges
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics;…
— Thomas Jefferson
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