School penalizes the student mildly for knowing less than the examiners, and harshly for knowing more.
Jan 262023
Jan 252023
Whatever you have done, you are the sort of person who would do that.
Jan 242023
The hunger remains as keen as ever for doctrine, for dogma, and any doctrine or dogma will do.
Jan 232023
One can be ill-read on many books and well-read on a very few.
Jan 202023
The knottiest problem in contemporary etiquette is what to say about your friend’s bad art.
Jan 192023
Some of what you say should not sound like something you would say.
Jan 182023
One needs a lot of learning to wear it lightly.
Jan 172023
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.
Jan 162023
Where counting is permitted, ordering is not far behind.
Jan 132023
Fiction, unlike life, is obliged to make sense.