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He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
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He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.
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He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say ''when!''
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
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He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
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He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more.
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He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
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