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I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

School is a foretaste of life.

When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.

Dostoevsky preaches the morality of the pariah, the morality of the slave.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.