School penalizes the student mildly for knowing less than the examiners, and harshly for knowing more.
Jan 262023
School penalizes the student mildly for knowing less than the examiners, and harshly for knowing more.
Whatever you have done, you are the sort of person who would do that.
The hunger remains as keen as ever for doctrine, for dogma, and any doctrine or dogma will do.
One can be ill-read on many books and well-read on a very few.
The knottiest problem in contemporary etiquette is what to say about your friend’s bad art.
Some of what you say should not sound like something you would say.
One needs a lot of learning to wear it lightly.
Nothing bores in on a man like his own uselessness, and no job title, salary, praise or prestige will permit him to hide it from himself.
Where counting is permitted, ordering is not far behind.
Fiction, unlike life, is obliged to make sense.