"The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve."

-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Teacher Quotes #Three Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.”
“I feel like the government is more evil than most corporations.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'!”

Source : John William Burgon (1846). “Petra, a Poem: To which a Few Short Poems are Now Added”, p.24
“So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.”
“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
“The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.”

Source : Sir Oliver Lodge, Raymond Lodge (Spirit) (1916). “Raymond Revised: A New Abbreviated Edition of "Raymond Or Life and Death" with an Additional Chapter”
“The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.”
“Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.”

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