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It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in america: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. but i am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.

-Harriet Martineau

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It Is Not Quite True That There

Harriet Martineau

It is not quite true that there are no good letters written in america: among my own circle of correspondents there, there are ladies and gentlemen whose letters would stand a comparison with any for frankness, grace, and epistolary beauty of every kind. but i am not aware of any medium between this excellence and the boarding-school insignificance which characterizes the rest.

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Each of the parts of philosophy is a philosophical whole, a circle rounded and complete in itself. in each of these parts, however, the philosophical idea is found in a particular specificality or medium. the single circle, because it is a real totality, bursts through the limits imposed by its special medium, and gives rise to a wider circle. the whole of philosophy in this way resembles a circle of circles. the idea appears in each single circle, but, at the same time, the whole idea is constituted by the system of these peculiar phases, and each is a necessary member of the organisation.

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I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what i am more like. but i know that the high school i went to was a private school. it was prep school. it was a boarding school. so we didn't have a shop class. we didn't have saturday detention. we went to school on saturday. we did have sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. who wants that?

If i believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, i could not hesitate for a moment. i would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - i would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as i would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society.

I was quite straight-laced. i was quite academic until i was about 14 and then i went to boarding school where i had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. and then when i was applying for universities i used a couple of places on my ucas form to apply for drama school without telling anyone... but didn't get into drama school. but that was the most rebellious thing i did.

If i were related to monet, i don't know if i would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. if i wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.

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