Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. Ernest Dimnet More Quotes by Ernest Dimnet More Quotes From Ernest Dimnet We all more or less consciously note this. We cannot help observing that all serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. Ernest Dimnet seriousconversationphilosophy Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. Ernest Dimnet datageniusforget Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Ernest Dimnet repeatsjudgmentpeople Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation. Ernest Dimnet hard-workbusinesslife
