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“ People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. ”

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Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

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