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“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
no hint of it—indeed, I was almost surprised
was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.
he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
