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SAINT, n. A...

SAINT, n. A...

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...

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Lying is an...

Lying is an...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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What is most...

What is most...

What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something...

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Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with...

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G K Chesterton: It isn't that...

G K Chesterton: It isn't that...

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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G K Chesterton: The wine they...

G K Chesterton: The wine they...

The wine they drink in Paradise
They make in Haute Lorraine.


Source: A Cider...

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G K Chesterton: The vulgar man...

G K Chesterton: The vulgar man...

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is...

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G K Chesterton: It is the...

G K Chesterton: It is the...

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

Source: In...

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Muriel Spark: To me education...

Muriel Spark: To me education...

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of...

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Mortimer Adler: The purpose of...

Mortimer Adler: The purpose of...

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to...

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Jane Austen: From politics, it...

Jane Austen: From politics, it...

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Henry David Thoreau: The way in...

Henry David Thoreau: The way in...

The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds...

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Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Source: Journals, entry...

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Henry David Thoreau: I would rather...

Henry David Thoreau: I would rather...

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet...

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Henry David Thoreau: Music is perpetual,...

Henry David Thoreau: Music is perpetual,...

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Source: In Webster's...

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Thomas Carlyle: Adversity is sometimes...

Thomas Carlyle: Adversity is sometimes...

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand...

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Thomas Carlyle: All reform except...

Thomas Carlyle: All reform except...

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Source: Critical and...

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Thomas Carlyle: Do the duty...

Thomas Carlyle: Do the duty...

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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Thomas Carlyle: For man is...

Thomas Carlyle: For man is...

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and...

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Thomas Carlyle: Men do less...

Thomas Carlyle: Men do less...

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Source: In Webster's...

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