"Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves."
"it is usually in better taste to praise an isolated action or a production of genius, than a man's character as a whole."
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Source: 'Good and Clever'
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"If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!"
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