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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.

Ernest Dimnet
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Ernest Dimnet quotes

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

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

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.



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