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Friedrich Nietzsche: Books for general...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Books for general...

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything ponderous, viscous,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything ponderous, viscous,...

Everything ponderous, viscous, and solemnly clumsy, all long-winded and boring types of style are developed in profuse...

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Thomas Carlyle: A healthy hatred...

Thomas Carlyle: A healthy hatred...

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

Source: (Political Economy) Latter Day Pamphlets,...

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Thomas Carlyle: But the whim...

Thomas Carlyle: But the whim...

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come...

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Thomas Carlyle: Worship is transcendent...

Thomas Carlyle: Worship is transcendent...

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Source: On Heroes and Hero-Worship, lecture 1, The...

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Henry David Thoreau: A farmer, a...

Henry David Thoreau: A farmer, a...

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is...

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Henry David Thoreau: To a philosopher...

Henry David Thoreau: To a philosopher...

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their...

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Henry David Thoreau: Nothing is so...

Henry David Thoreau: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Source: Quoted in: Andr? Gide, Journals 1889...

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George Eliot: Life is measured...

George Eliot: Life is measured...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...

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Charles Dickens: We've got a...

Charles Dickens: We've got a...

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's...

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Marquis de Sade: Are wars. ....

Marquis de Sade: Are wars. ....

Are wars. . . anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is...

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Marquis de Sade: It is only...

Marquis de Sade: It is only...

It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that...

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Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

Thomas Wolfe: The notion that...

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed...

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Abraham Lincoln: What is conservatism?...

Abraham Lincoln: What is conservatism?...

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and...

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Robert Browning: And the muttering...

Robert Browning: And the muttering...

And the muttering grew to a grumbling;
And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
And out of the houses the...

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Ogden Nash: Senescence begins<br>And middle...

Ogden Nash: Senescence begins
And middle...

Senescence begins
And middle age ends,
The day your descendants,
Outnumber your...

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Robert Frost: And nothing to...

Robert Frost: And nothing to...

And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.


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Robert Frost: I'm not confused....

Robert Frost: I'm not confused....

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Source: The Wall Street Journal,...

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Robert Frost: I am glad...

Robert Frost: I am glad...

I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of...

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