Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
- Ernest Dimnet
Lose, Six, Keeping, Chances
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
- Ernest Dimnet
Happiness, Little Things, Errors
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
- Ernest Dimnet
Education, Educated, Left, Educate
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
- Ernest Dimnet
Own, Suspend, Till, Expressed
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
- Ernest Dimnet
Reward, Succession, Enforced, Lessons
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
- Ernest Dimnet
Education, Thinking, Habit, Methodical
Ideas are the root of creation.
- Ernest Dimnet
Ideas, Root, Creation
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
- Ernest Dimnet
Architecture, Most, Which, Slowly
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
- Ernest Dimnet
Book, Consciousness, Like, Readers
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
- Ernest Dimnet
Serious, Gravitate, Towards, Conversations
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
- Ernest Dimnet
Past, Only, Far, Illuminates
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