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I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry. 
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. 
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods. 
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. 
The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child. 
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me. 
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity. 
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. 
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. 
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour. 
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance. 
It is useless to send armies against ideas. 
The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age. 
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster. 
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. 
The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men. 
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. 
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth. 
School is a foretaste of life. 
Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success. 