Georg Brandes

" Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school. "
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" I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry. "
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" I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. "
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" I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. "
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" I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself. "
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" Being gifted needs courage. "
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Georg Brandes
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04-02-1842 19-02-1927 Literary critic and scholar. citation
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