"However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science."
― Knut Hamsun
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More From Knut Hamsun
- "You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."
- "In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."
- "No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."
More In Great
- "I’ve come to understand that there’s always something positive, even in a negative situation."― Leif Garrett
- "Almost everything that is great has been done by youth."― Benjamin Disraeli
- "Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces."― Julius Caesar