Danish - Critic | February 4, 1842 - February 19, 1927
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes
GoodWorldFriendlyWholeWere
Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
PowerPoorHotLeadMetalBullets
School is a foretaste of life.
LifeSchool
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.
HomeDisciplineDaySchoolPeople
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
TimeProblemsLiteratureLivingWay
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
CheerfulnessVersionNationalGlee
The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
AttentionPersonWhomCourse
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
TruthTimeHumanityStreamAway
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
WarImpossibleEnoughNewSoldiers
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.
AppearanceTroubleBoyLittleCourse
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