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Geoffrey Chaucer: The gretteste clerkes...

Geoffrey Chaucer: The gretteste clerkes...

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men.

Source: Canterbury Tales, 'The...

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Louis Aragon: Can the knowledge...

Louis Aragon: Can the knowledge...

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by...

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Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

Alexander Smith: To be occasionally...

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Source: Dreamthorp,...

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Benjamin Franklin: Having been poor...

Benjamin Franklin: Having been poor...

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

Source: In

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Benjamin Franklin: Life's Tragedy is...

Benjamin Franklin: Life's Tragedy is...

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Source: x
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G C Lichtenberg: The noble simplicity...

G C Lichtenberg: The noble simplicity...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who...

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G C Lichtenberg: The fly that...

G C Lichtenberg: The fly that...

The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swatter.

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G C Lichtenberg: We often have...

G C Lichtenberg: We often have...

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our...

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Cecil Beaton: On close inspection,...

Cecil Beaton: On close inspection,...

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the...

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Edmund Waller: The fear of...

Edmund Waller: The fear of...

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

Source: In...

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John Osborne: I never deliberately...

John Osborne: I never deliberately...

I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something...

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Robert Frost: By working faithfully...

Robert Frost: By working faithfully...

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a...

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William Wordsworth: In that sweet...

William Wordsworth: In that sweet...

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind.

Source:...

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Francis Quarles: Read not books...

Francis Quarles: Read not books...

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Source: In Poor...

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Francis Quarles: Necessity of action...

Francis Quarles: Necessity of action...

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of...

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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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Wendy Wasserstein: Sometimes I want...

Wendy Wasserstein: Sometimes I want...

Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -- but He did give us children to make them...

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Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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