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Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

Thomas Carlyle: It is a...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like...

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Agatha Christie: The best time...

Agatha Christie: The best time...

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Source: In An...

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Kate Seredy: I make money...

Kate Seredy: I make money...

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty...

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John Foster Dulles: The measure of...

John Foster Dulles: The measure of...

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had...

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Otto von Bismarck: There is only...

Otto von Bismarck: There is only...

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of...

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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: We have accomplished...

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: We have accomplished...

We have accomplished something very significant, and it's our responsibility, yours and mine, on behalf of our...

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Robert Burton: A blow with...

Robert Burton: A blow with...

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Source: 'The Anatomy of...

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William James: The greatest use...

William James: The greatest use...

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

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Aristotle: No one will...

Aristotle: No one will...

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

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Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Andrea Dworkin: Wild intelligence abhors...

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is an outlaw. No...

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There is a...

There is a...

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. And how do you know...

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I haven't heard...

I haven't heard...

I haven't heard of anyone who wants to stop living on account of the cost.

Source:...

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ADAGE, n. Boned...

ADAGE, n. Boned...

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
--...

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ADORE, v.t. To...

ADORE, v.t. To...

ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
--...

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AIR, n. A...

AIR, n. A...

AIR, n. A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the...

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BACCHUS, n. A...

BACCHUS, n. A...

BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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CABBAGE, n. A...

CABBAGE, n. A...

CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

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CLERGYMAN, n. A...

CLERGYMAN, n. A...

CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal...

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To philosophize is...

To philosophize is...

To philosophize is to doubt.

Source: 'Essays'
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne,...

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Adultery is the...

Adultery is the...

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Source: A Book of Burlesques, in...

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