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I like a...

I like a...

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Source: The...

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Violent antipathies are...

Violent antipathies are...

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

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The New is...

The New is...

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Source: The Pleasure of the Text, Modern ...

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After a fellow...

After a fellow...

After a fellow gets famous it does not take long for someone to bob up that used to sit next to him in...

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It is no...

It is no...

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Source: In

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BEFRIEND, v.t. To...

BEFRIEND, v.t. To...

BEFRIEND, v.t. To make an ingrate.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.
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CENTAUR, n. One...

CENTAUR, n. One...

CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of...

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CALUMNUS, n. A...

CALUMNUS, n. A...

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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Arnold Bennett: In search of...

Arnold Bennett: In search of...

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four...

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Knut Hamsun: When good befalls...

Knut Hamsun: When good befalls...

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

Source: Vagabonds,...

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Mark Twain: He is useless...

Mark Twain: He is useless...

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

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Mark Twain: I never felt...

Mark Twain: I never felt...

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when...

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Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

Agatha Christie: I've always believed...

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is of...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is of...

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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Jane Austen: If there is...

Jane Austen: If there is...

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: We met ....

Jane Austen: We met ....

We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...

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Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

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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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James Agee: You must be...

James Agee: You must be...

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

Source:...

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