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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the...

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Rachel Field: The public is...

Rachel Field: The public is...

The public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

Source: All This &...

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Katherine Paterson: Peace is not...

Katherine Paterson: Peace is not...

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out...

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Tom Sharpe: We must not...

Tom Sharpe: We must not...

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

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G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Source: Orthodoxy,...

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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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Henry David Thoreau: Waves of a...

Henry David Thoreau: Waves of a...

Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy...

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Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

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Lillian Smith: When you stop...

Lillian Smith: When you stop...

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to...

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Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

Gloria Naylor: His entire life...

His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning.

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Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

Olive Schreiner: We all enter...

We all enter the world little plastic beings, with so much natural force, perhaps, but for the rest --blank; and the...

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Jean Paul: Joys are our...

Jean Paul: Joys are our...

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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P G Wodehouse: It was my...

P G Wodehouse: It was my...

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical...

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Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

Alex Haley: I acknowledge immense...

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa -- where today it is rightly said that when a griot...

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Christopher Morley: If you have...

Christopher Morley: If you have...

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Source:...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: Anyone who attempts...

Augusto Roa Bastos: Anyone who attempts...

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of...

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Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in...

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Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

Shirley Hazzard: It's a nervous...

It's a nervous work. The state that you need to write is the state that others are paying large sums to get rid...

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Nella Larsen: It was ....

Nella Larsen: It was ....

It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...

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Lawrence Durrell: I'm trying to...

Lawrence Durrell: I'm trying to...

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Source: Sunday...

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