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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Erica Jong: And the trouble...

Erica Jong: And the trouble...

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

G K Chesterton: Nothing is poetical...

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not...

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Gertrude Stein: Everybody knows if...

Gertrude Stein: Everybody knows if...

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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Jane Austen: In nine cases...

Jane Austen: In nine cases...

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.

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Jane Austen: She was nothing...

Jane Austen: She was nothing...

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her...

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Charles Dickens: Not to put...

Charles Dickens: Not to put...

Not to put too fine a point upon it.

Source: (Mr Snagsby) Bleak House, Ch. 11
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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody'.

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Charles Dickens: Take example by...

Charles Dickens: Take example by...

Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o' vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public...

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George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

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Mark Twain: There was never...

Mark Twain: There was never...

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is...

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Mark Twain: Do not undervalue...

Mark Twain: Do not undervalue...

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the...

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Mark Twain: I am different...

Mark Twain: I am different...

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie,...

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Mark Twain: Truth is the...

Mark Twain: Truth is the...

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Source: Following...

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E M Forster: The traveller who...

E M Forster: The traveller who...

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return...

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Jane Austen: If it was...

Jane Austen: If it was...

'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.'...

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Jane Austen: The sooner every...

Jane Austen: The sooner every...

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Source: Emma, Ch. 25
-- Jane...

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Douglas Adams: So long, and...

Douglas Adams: So long, and...

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Source: The dolphins' farewell message to...

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John Steinbeck: Men do change,...

John Steinbeck: Men do change,...

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy...

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Graham Henry Greene: It is impossible...

Graham Henry Greene: It is impossible...

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all,...

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