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

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Dawned Difficult Gradually Me More Mother Please Than

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

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Country Cow Jolly Little Milk Pigs Play Warm

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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: About Brother Good Great Had Imagination Instead Junior Just Life Longer More Myself Nurse Protect Real Real Life School Strength Taken Time Two Use Warrior Years

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My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Astonishing Climb Compete Could Faster Father Grass Hill Him How Impossible Much Old Old People People Run Slow Some Stairs Them Though Trying Up Very Were

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My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Academic Acquaintances After Back Circle Experiences First Friendship Friendships Gradually Grow Grown Had Large Looked Made Me Natural New Only Out Should Smile Them Years

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On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Chiefly Depended Friendly Good Were Whether Whole World

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

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Becomes Bullets Compared Hot Lead Metal Poor Power Types

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School is a foretaste of life.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Life School

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

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Debates Literature Living Our Our Time Problems Shown Time Way

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The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

~Georg Brandes

Topics: Cheerfulness Danish Glee National Version

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Critic

Born: February 4th, 1842

Died: February 19th, 1927

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