"At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes."

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Source : Henry Green (1940). “Pack my bag: a self-portrait”

Henry Green

#School Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Income Quotes

“Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.”

Source : Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers (1995). “Gifts differing: understanding personality type”, Davies-Black Publishing
“My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.”
“There's no such thing as failure if you just try.”

Source : John Osborne (1958). “Three Plays”
“It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.”

Source : Ann-Marie MacDonald (2011). “Fall On Your Knees”, p.487, Simon and Schuster
“Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become...”
“Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.”

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria
“Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes.”
“Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!”

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