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Thomas Wolfe: A young man...

Thomas Wolfe: A young man...

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use...

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George MacDonald: To have what...

George MacDonald: To have what...

To have what we want is riches; but to do without is power.

Source: In The...

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Laurence Sterne: Learning is the...

Laurence Sterne: Learning is the...

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Source: In Wisdom of...

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Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death --...

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Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Emily Bronte: Love is like...

Love is like the wild-rose briar;
Friendship is like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose briar...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: My youth is...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: My youth is...

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Source: A Heritage and...

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Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Kathleen Norris: Just the knowledge...

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day...

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Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains...

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Eleanor H Porter: Hold up to...

Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their...

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Charles Dickens: Which fiddle-strings is...

Charles Dickens: Which fiddle-strings is...

Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!

Source: (Mrs...

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Gloria Naylor: The last time...

Gloria Naylor: The last time...

The last time you're doing something -- knowing you're doing it for the last -- makes it even more alive than the...

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P G Wodehouse: Success comes to...

P G Wodehouse: Success comes to...

Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and...

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Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Christopher Morley: Read, every day,...

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day,...

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Christopher Morley: Heaven is not...

Christopher Morley: Heaven is not...

Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets.


Source:...

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Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Christopher Morley: Any man worth...

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to...

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It is inaccurate...

It is inaccurate...

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything, I am strongly in favor of common sense, and common decency. This makes me...

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Life is a...

Life is a...

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.

Source: In...

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It is perfectly...

It is perfectly...

It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best...

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Politicians tend to...

Politicians tend to...

Politicians tend to live in character and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes...

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