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It Is Doubtful If Even Experience Of Riches And Success Is As Intense Among Those Who Have Experienced Nothing Else As Among Those Who Have Also Experienced Poverty And Failure. There Is Little Romance In Wealth To Those Who Have Been Born Wealthy And Whose Families Have Been Wealthy For Generations.

It Is The Custom When Praising A Russian Writer To Do So At The Expense Of All Other Russian Writers.

The Art Of Writing History Is The Art Of Emphasizing The Significant Facts At The Expense Of The Insignificant. And It Is The Same In Every Field Of Knowledge. Knowledge Is Power Only If A Man Knows What Facts Not To Bother About.

We Cannot Get Happiness By Striving After It, And Yet With An Effort We Can Impart It.

When One Has Praised Turgenev, However, For The Beauty Of His Character And The Beautiful Truth Of His Art, One Remembers That He, Too, Was Human And Therefore Less Than Perfect. His Chief Failing Was, Perhaps, That Of All The Great Artists, He Was The Most Lacking In Exuberance. That Is Why He Began To Be Scorned In A World Which Rated Exuberance Higher Than Beauty Or Love Or Pity.