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Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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-- Mary...

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Erica Jong: I have accepted...

Erica Jong: I have accepted...

I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change. . . . I have gone ahead despite the...

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E L Konigsburg: The adventure is...

E L Konigsburg: The adventure is...

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with...

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Kate Seredy: There are hurts...

Kate Seredy: There are hurts...

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

Source:...

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Margery Allingham: The optimism of...

Margery Allingham: The optimism of...

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...

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Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

Jean Genet: To achieve harmony...

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

Source: The Thief's...

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Jean Genet: The fame of...

Jean Genet: The fame of...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to...

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G K Chesterton: In matters of...

G K Chesterton: In matters of...

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you...

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G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...

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John Dalberg Acton: Power tends to...

John Dalberg Acton: Power tends to...

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Source: Letter, 3...

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Cornelius Nepos: We measure great...

Cornelius Nepos: We measure great...

We measure great men by their virtue, not their fortune.

Source: In Webster's...

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John Dalberg Acton: The most certain...

John Dalberg Acton: The most certain...

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by...

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C Northcote Parkinson: The man whose...

C Northcote Parkinson: The man whose...

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his...

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Joyce Carol Oates: We inhabit ourselves...

Joyce Carol Oates: We inhabit ourselves...

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once...

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Stephen Crane: A man said...

Stephen Crane: A man said...

A man said to the universe: Sir, I exist! However, replied the universe, That fact has not created in me a sense of...

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Georges Bernanos: Little things seem...

Georges Bernanos: Little things seem...

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all...

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C P Snow: Civilization is hideously...

C P Snow: Civilization is hideously...

Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Any concern too...

Corrie Ten Boom: Any concern too...

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

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