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William E Gladstone: Be happy with...

William E Gladstone: Be happy with...

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for...

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Anthony Hope: He is very...

Anthony Hope: He is very...

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for...

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Charles Reade: A wife is...

Charles Reade: A wife is...

A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his...

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Betty Smith: I wrote about...

Betty Smith: I wrote about...

I wrote about people who liked, fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in...

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Tom Clancy: Never ask what...

Tom Clancy: Never ask what...

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass...

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Lawana Blackwell: Patterning your life...

Lawana Blackwell: Patterning your life...

Patterning your life around other?s opinions is nothing more than slavery.

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Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

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-- Toni Morrison,...

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Robert Ludlum: . . ....

Robert Ludlum: . . ....

. . . If you lose their interest, your're closing Saturday night.

Source: Ludlum on...

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Thomas Merton: October is a...

Thomas Merton: October is a...

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college,...

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Thomas ? Kempis: The acknowledgment of...

Thomas ? Kempis: The acknowledgment of...

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step toward repairing our loss.

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Thomas ? Kempis: Would to God...

Thomas ? Kempis: Would to God...

Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!

Source: The Imitation of...

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St Teresa of Avila: Untilled soil, however...

St Teresa of Avila: Untilled soil, however...

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's...

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St Teresa of Avila: It is true...

St Teresa of Avila: It is true...

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . ....

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Giambattista Vico: Uniform ideas originating...

Giambattista Vico: Uniform ideas originating...

Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of...

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Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Epicurus: Do not spoil...

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the...

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Ernest Dimnet: Life is a...

Ernest Dimnet: Life is a...

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate...

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James Joyce: The artist, like...

James Joyce: The artist, like...

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible,...

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Robert Graves: Nine-tenths of English...

Robert Graves: Nine-tenths of English...

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand...

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C P Snow: I believe the...

C P Snow: I believe the...

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other,...

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Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Joseph Conrad: Any work that...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every...

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