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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

Topics: Destructive Errors Fatal Great Happiness Little Little Things Most People Repetition Ruined Slowly Things

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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Creation Education Habit Methodical Thinking

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Also Children Educate Educated Left Themselves

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All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Conversations Gravitate Philosophy Serious Towards

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Ideas are the root of creation.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Creation Ideas Root

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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

Topics: American Cannot Chances Conversations Habit How Improvement Inveterate Keeping Lose Many Mental Realize Room Six Twelve

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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Far History Illuminates Interests Only Past Present The History Of Us

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

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Enforced Immediate Lessons Life Life Is A Reward Succession

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

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Acts Architecture Arts Most Slowly Soul Surely Which

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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

~Ernest Dimnet

Topics: Else Expressed His Judgment Most Own People Repeat Somebody Suspend Then Till

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Clergyman

Born: Unknown

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