Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement

Quote by Ernest Dimnet

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit...

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit...

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified...

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified...

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Ideas are the root of creation.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.