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Euripides: The lucky person...

Euripides: The lucky person...

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Source: Herakleidai.
-- Euripides, (Sep 23...

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George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

George Bernard Shaw: Love is a...

Love is a gross exaggeration of the differences between one person and everybody else.

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George Bernard Shaw: The national anthem...

George Bernard Shaw: The national anthem...

The national anthem belongs to the eighteenth century. In it you find us ordering God about to do our political dirty...

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Stanislaw Lec: When gossip grows...

Stanislaw Lec: When gossip grows...

When gossip grows old it becomes myth.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Exciting literature after...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Exciting literature after...

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Source: The Living of...

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Henry J Kaiser: Live daringly, boldly,...

Henry J Kaiser: Live daringly, boldly,...

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within...

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G C Lichtenberg: What most clearly...

G C Lichtenberg: What most clearly...

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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Robert Millikan: Cultivate the habit...

Robert Millikan: Cultivate the habit...

Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and...

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Francis Thompson: Spring is come...

Francis Thompson: Spring is come...

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet.
And all the things are made young with young...

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Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

Jenny Joseph: I shall sit...

I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my...

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Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market...

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Oscar Wilde: Good artists exist...

Oscar Wilde: Good artists exist...

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now slides the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Now slides the...

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.


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Emily Dickinson: To make a...

Emily Dickinson: To make a...

To make a prairie
It takes clover and one bee
One clover, and a bee, and revery.
The revery alone will...

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Richard Armour: I've suffered from...

Richard Armour: I've suffered from...

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known,
And none is as bad as the telephone.


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Charles Dickens: If the law...

Charles Dickens: If the law...

'If the law supposes that,' said Mr. Bumble . . . , 'the law is a ass - a idiot.'

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Herman Wouk: I felt there's...

Herman Wouk: I felt there's...

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of...

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E M Forster: Faith, to my...

E M Forster: Faith, to my...

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as...

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Henry Fielding: In reality, the...

Henry Fielding: In reality, the...

In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater...

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Chinua Achebe: When old people...

Chinua Achebe: When old people...

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which...

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