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Page 65 - Professor James writes piquantly: No man can be "a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a tone-poet and saint
Page 15 - much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest ' swell,' but he simply cannot buy the right things. An invisible law, as strong as gravitation, keeps him within his orbit, arrayed this year as he was last; and how his
Page 14 - Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the association of his growing years. Hardly ever indeed,
Page 100 - opinions; why we should mix a little alloy of conventional expression with the too fine ore of conviction; why we should adopt beliefs that we suspect in our hearts to be of more than equivocal authenticity, but into whose antecedents we do not greatly care to inquire, because they stand so well with the general public.
Page 128 - is the mind and attitude not of the ordinary man, but of those who should be extraordinary. The decisive sign of the elevation of a nation's life is to be sought amongst those who lead or ought to lead.
Page 59 - All this suppression of the secondary leaves the field clear, — for higher flights, should they choose to come. But even if they never came, what thoughts there were would still manifest the aristocratic type and wear the well-bred form.
Page 15 - last; and how his better-bred acquaintances contrive to get the things they wear will be for him a mystery till his dying day.
Page 154 - the highest privilege to which the majority of mankind can aspire, is that of being governed by those wiser than they.
Page 102 - miscarriage of the world, if there be one thing steadfast and of favorable omen, one thing to make optimism distrust its own
Page 90 - Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist.