QUOTATIONS by AUTHOR
America
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
Happiness
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
-Ernest Dimnet
History
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
-Ernest Dimnet
Ideas
Ideas are the roots of creation.
-Ernest Dimnet
Life
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
-Ernest Dimnet
Philosophy
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
-Ernest Dimnet , What We Live By
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