One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much. - Benjamin Jowett
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
- Benjamin Jowett
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. - Benjamin Jowett
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and… - Benjamin Jowett
Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and…
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl. - Benjamin Jowett
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
One man is as good as another until he has written a book. - Benjamin Jowett
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so. - Benjamin Jowett
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else. - Benjamin Jowett
Give the clergy your sympathy; don't give them anything else.
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary. - Benjamin Jowett
Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. - Benjamin Jowett
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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