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Carlos Fuentes: What the United...

Carlos Fuentes: What the United...

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand...

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Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray...

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James Agee: In every child...

James Agee: In every child...

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the...

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James Agee: When he ran...

James Agee: When he ran...

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to...

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Sholem Asch: Writing comes more...

Sholem Asch: Writing comes more...

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Source: In Webster's...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you wish...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you wish...

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man . . .you will get better results if you just watch...

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Georges Clemenceau: Oh to be...

Georges Clemenceau: Oh to be...

Oh to be seventy again.

Source: On passing a pretty girl on the Champs Elysees on...

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William Pitt the Elder: [C]onfidence is a...

William Pitt the Elder: [C]onfidence is a...

[C]onfidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.

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Robert Walpole: I have lived...

Robert Walpole: I have lived...

I have lived long enough in the world, Sir, . . . to know that the safety of a minister lies in his having the...

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Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Aim at perfection...

Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Aim at perfection...

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,...

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Alexander Hamilton: I never expect...

Alexander Hamilton: I never expect...

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect men.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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William E Gladstone: Men are apt...

William E Gladstone: Men are apt...

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the...

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Edward Everett: I am only...

Edward Everett: I am only...

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something; And because I cannot do...

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Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not...

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Nathaniel Branden: Reason and emotion...

Nathaniel Branden: Reason and emotion...

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which,...

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Jean Baudrillard: Every woman is...

Jean Baudrillard: Every woman is...

Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the...

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Jean Baudrillard: A negative judgment...

Jean Baudrillard: A negative judgment...

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of...

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Colley Cibber: Old houses mended,<br>Cost...

Colley Cibber: Old houses mended,
Cost...

Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended.


Source:...

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Ludovico Ariosto: They think they...

Ludovico Ariosto: They think they...

They think they have God Almighty by the toe.

Source: Orlando Furioso, 1532.
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Robert Frost: A successful lawsuit...

Robert Frost: A successful lawsuit...

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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