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Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Source: Dreamthorp,...

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Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei...

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George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

George Gordon Byron: To withdraw myself...

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at...

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Emily Dickinson: Faith is a...

Emily Dickinson: Faith is a...

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentleman can see --
But Microscopes are prudent
In an...

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John Lyly: It is a...

John Lyly: It is a...

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

Source: In Webster's...

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John Lyly: Many strokes overthrow...

John Lyly: Many strokes overthrow...

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Martial: While you cannot...

Martial: While you cannot...

While you cannot resolve what your are, at last you will be nothing.

Source:...

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Douglas Jerrold: Readers are of...

Douglas Jerrold: Readers are of...

Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go...

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Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Douglas Jerrold: Happiness grows at...

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

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Thomas Tusser: Yet true it...

Thomas Tusser: Yet true it...

Yet true it is, as cow chews cud,
And trees at spring do yield forth bud,
Except wind stands as never it...

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Thomas Tusser: Seek home for...

Thomas Tusser: Seek home for...

Seek home for rest,
For home is best.


Source: Five Hundred Points of Good...

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Nicolas Chamfort: The success of...

Nicolas Chamfort: The success of...

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the...

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Nicolas Chamfort: The most thoroughly...

Nicolas Chamfort: The most thoroughly...

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

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Terry McMillan: Can't nothin make...

Terry McMillan: Can't nothin make...

Can't nothin make your life work if you ain't the architect.

Source: In Famous...

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Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is...

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Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Look twice before you leap.

Source: Shirley, ch. 9, 1849.
-- Charlotte Bronte,...

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Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Charlotte Bronte: Men judge us...

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

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Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of...

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Marcel Pagnol: The most difficult...

Marcel Pagnol: The most difficult...

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Source:...

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Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

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