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ARCHBISHOP, n. An...

ARCHBISHOP, n. An...

ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.

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ARTLESSNESS, n. A...

ARTLESSNESS, n. A...

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring...

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CONTEMPT, n. The...

CONTEMPT, n. The...

CONTEMPT, n. The feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: A leader or...

Jawaharlal Nehru: A leader or...

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his...

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Jawaharlal Nehru: You don't change...

Jawaharlal Nehru: You don't change...

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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Barbara Bush: Some people give...

Barbara Bush: Some people give...

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but...

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Charles Dickens: Wich is your...

Charles Dickens: Wich is your...

Wich is your partickler wanity? Wich wanity do you like the flavour on best, sir?

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Charles Dickens: I am well...

Charles Dickens: I am well...

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going . . . .My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a...

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Charles Dickens: Let us be...

Charles Dickens: Let us be...

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch....

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Jane Austen: There are certainly...

Jane Austen: There are certainly...

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve...

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G K Chesterton: The old idea...

G K Chesterton: The old idea...

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that...

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G K Chesterton: I owe my...

G K Chesterton: I owe my...

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact...

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G K Chesterton: It is as...

G K Chesterton: It is as...

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Source: Generally Speaking, ...

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G K Chesterton: I will not...

G K Chesterton: I will not...

I will not call it my philosophy, for I did not make it. God and humanity made it, and it made...

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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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Giambattista Vico: Common sense is...

Giambattista Vico: Common sense is...

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human...

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Djuna Barnes: An image is...

Djuna Barnes: An image is...

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

Source: Nightwood,...

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Thomas Carlyle: What I loved...

Thomas Carlyle: What I loved...

What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite...

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Thomas Carlyle: Writing is a...

Thomas Carlyle: Writing is a...

Writing is a dreadful Labour, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Source: Two...

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Henry David Thoreau: Is not disease...

Henry David Thoreau: Is not disease...

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects....

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