Quotes by Georg Brandes

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

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That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it...

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Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none...

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School is a foretaste of life.

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Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of...

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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good...

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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him...

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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had...

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It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and...

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It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than...

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I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.

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I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a...

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