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I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
— Georg Brandes
I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
— Georg Brandes
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
— Georg Brandes
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
— Georg Brandes
It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
— Georg Brandes
Those [Christians] had left to love on earth were then: brothers and sisters in hatred, whom they called then: brothers and sisters in love.
— Georg Brandes
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
— Georg Brandes
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
— Georg Brandes
What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
— Georg Brandes
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
— Georg Brandes
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
— Georg Brandes
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
— Georg Brandes
Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.
— Georg Brandes
School is a foretaste of life.
— Georg Brandes
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
— Georg Brandes
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
— Georg Brandes
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
— Georg Brandes
Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
— Georg Brandes
I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
— Georg Brandes
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
— Georg Brandes
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
— Georg Brandes
The great man is not the child of his age but its step-child.
— Georg Brandes
Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
— Georg Brandes
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
— Georg Brandes