“All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection, seldom fear the danger of being distracted by comers and goers.”

— Ernest Dimnet

Source: What we live by (1932), p. 202

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French writer 1866–1954

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