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John Mortimer: I think I'm...

John Mortimer: I think I'm...

I think I'm thoroughly in favour of Mrs. Thatcher's visit to the Falklands. I find a bit of hesitation, though, about...

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John Mortimer: I refuse to...

John Mortimer: I refuse to...

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years...

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Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

Eden Phillpotts: The universe is...

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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George Meredith: Passions spin the...

George Meredith: Passions spin the...

Passions spin the plot:
We are betrayed by what is false within.


Source: Modern...

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George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

George Meredith: Kissing don't last:...

Kissing don't last: cookery do!

Source: Mrs. Berry, in The Ordeal of Richard...

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Edward Everett: A great character,...

Edward Everett: A great character,...

A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not...

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Havelock Ellis: However well organized...

Havelock Ellis: However well organized...

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

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Stanley Baldwin: The intelligent are...

Stanley Baldwin: The intelligent are...

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Source:...

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Stanley Baldwin: A platitude is...

Stanley Baldwin: A platitude is...

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

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Robert Walpole: The balance of...

Robert Walpole: The balance of...

The balance of power.

Source: Speech in House of Commons, 13 Feb. 1741.
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Erica Jong: When I was...

Erica Jong: When I was...

When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it...

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Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Source: Fear of Flying, 1973
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Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really...

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George Moore: There is nothing...

George Moore: There is nothing...

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's...

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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Albert Schweitzer: The great secret...

Albert Schweitzer: The great secret...

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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Albert Schweitzer: Just as the...

Albert Schweitzer: Just as the...

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live...

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W C Sellar: History is not...

W C Sellar: History is not...

History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats...

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Thomas E Dewey: The law is...

Thomas E Dewey: The law is...

The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.

Source: In...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: I became active...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: I became active...

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which...

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