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Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to...

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Charles Dickens: What is peace?...

Charles Dickens: What is peace?...

What is peace? Is it war? No. Is it strife? No. Is it lovely, and gentle, and beautiful, and pleasant, and serene,...

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Charles Dickens: I expect a...

Charles Dickens: I expect a...

I expect a judgment. Shortly.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

Charles Dickens: There are strings,'...

'There are strings,' said Mr Tappertit, `. . . in the human heart that had better not be...

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Charles Dickens: Kent, sir --...

Charles Dickens: Kent, sir --...

Kent, sir -- everybody knows Kent -- apples, cherries, hops, and women.

Source:...

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Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...

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Jane Austen: Next to being...

Jane Austen: Next to being...

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

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E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Source: A Passage to India, pt. 1, ch. 7, 1924.
-- E M...

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George Bernard Shaw: When a man...

George Bernard Shaw: When a man...

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it...

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James Matthew Barrie: What is algebra...

James Matthew Barrie: What is algebra...

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Source: Quality Street,...

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J B Priestley: One of the...

J B Priestley: One of the...

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

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J B Priestley: The first fall...

J B Priestley: The first fall...

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in...

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Euripides: Talk sense to...

Euripides: Talk sense to...

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Source: From Ashleys collection of...

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Jean Anouilh: Beauty is one...

Jean Anouilh: Beauty is one...

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Source: Thomas ?...

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William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo's...

William Wordsworth: The first cuckoo's...

The first cuckoo's melancholy cry.

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I. 14, `To...

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William Wordsworth: Where lies the...

William Wordsworth: Where lies the...

Where lies the land to which yon ship must go?

Source: Miscellaneous Sonnets, I....

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Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

Emily Dickinson: If I feel...

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Is there any other...

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Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

Thornton Wilder: I regard the...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with...

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Ogden Nash: If called by...

Ogden Nash: If called by...

If called by a panther,
don't anther.


Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever...

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Ogden Nash: Candy,<br>Is dandy,<br>But Liquor,<br>Is...

Ogden Nash: Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is...

Candy,
Is dandy,
But Liquor,
Is quicker.


Source: Reflections on...

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