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Ernest Dimnet
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Quotes by Ernest Dimnet

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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.

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Prejudices subsist in people’s imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison’s inventions.

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The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things

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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.


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Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
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