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E B White: There's no limit...

E B White: There's no limit...

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to...

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E B White: Be obscure clearly....

E B White: Be obscure clearly....

Be obscure clearly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler,...

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E B White: I would feel...

E B White: I would feel...

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill<br>By...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
By a mighty effort of will
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political...

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P D James: Jealousy, he thought,...

P D James: Jealousy, he thought,...

Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness...

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Jean Paul Richter: In later life,...

Jean Paul Richter: In later life,...

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by...

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Noel Coward: Trust your instincts....

Noel Coward: Trust your instincts....

Trust your instincts. If you have no instincts, trust your impulses.

Source: In The...

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William Wordsworth: Give all thou...

William Wordsworth: Give all thou...

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore
Of nicely-calculated less or more.


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Novalis: My opinion, my...

Novalis: My opinion, my...

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted...

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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus: The bravest man...

The bravest man is he who is prepared to cope with present dangers and to wait for a better...

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Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Paul Verlaine: Music before all...

Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the...

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Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

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Antonin Artaud: There are souls...

Antonin Artaud: There are souls...

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will...

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Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this...

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William Wordsworth: Come forth into...

William Wordsworth: Come forth into...

Come forth into the light of things, Let nature be your Teacher.

Source: The Tables...

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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it...

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Sophocles: It is terrible...

Sophocles: It is terrible...

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Eva Peron: If I fall,...

Eva Peron: If I fall,...

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

Source:...

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Corazon Aquino: The nation was...

Corazon Aquino: The nation was...

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Source: Dedicating a marker at...

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