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Jane Austen: It is very...

Jane Austen: It is very...

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Source: 'Emma' [Cf....

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Jane Austen: It is a...

Jane Austen: It is a...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a...

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Jane Austen: One of Edward's...

Jane Austen: One of Edward's...

One of Edward's Mistresses was Jane Shore, who has had a play written about her, but it is a tragedy and therefore not...

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Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Source: (Bunsby)...

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Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

Charles Dickens: He [Mr Turveydrop]...

He [Mr Turveydrop] is celebrated almost everywhere, for his Deportment.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: Wery good power...

Charles Dickens: Wery good power...

Wery good power o' suction, Sammy . . . You'd ha' made an uncommon fine oyster, Sammy, if you'd been born in that...

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Charles Dickens: If your governor...

Charles Dickens: If your governor...

If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly...

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Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

Charles Dickens: To be shelterless...

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long...

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Charles Dickens: A boy's story...

Charles Dickens: A boy's story...

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Charles Dickens: Fan the sinking...

Charles Dickens: Fan the sinking...

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's...

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Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Life is infinitely...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Life is infinitely...

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things...

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Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Source: In My Autobiography,...

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Mark Twain: An ethical man...

Mark Twain: An ethical man...

An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Mark Twain: History is strewn...

Mark Twain: History is strewn...

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is...

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Mark Twain: I am a...

Mark Twain: I am a...

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this...

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Mark Twain: It is by...

Mark Twain: It is by...

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,...

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Mark Twain: Noise proves nothing....

Mark Twain: Noise proves nothing....

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she laid an...

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