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Jean Toomer: The realization of...

Jean Toomer: The realization of...

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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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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Charles Dickens: I do not...

Charles Dickens: I do not...

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no...

Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no...

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In the beautiful,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In the beautiful,...

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. . . ....

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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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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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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: The greater part...

Henry David Thoreau: The greater part...

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is...

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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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Jawaharlal Nehru: Crises and deadlocks...

Jawaharlal Nehru: Crises and deadlocks...

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to...

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Winston Churchill: There is no...

Winston Churchill: There is no...

There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to...

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Winston Churchill: The War was...

Winston Churchill: The War was...

The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which,...

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Winston Churchill: Never in the...

Winston Churchill: Never in the...

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Source:...

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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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