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Charles Dickens: Do you spell...

Charles Dickens: Do you spell...

'Do you spell it with a `V' or a `W'?' inquired the judge. `That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that...

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Erica Jong: Surviving meant being...

Erica Jong: Surviving meant being...

Surviving meant being born over and over.

Source:
-- Erica Jong, (Mar 26...

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Gertrude Stein: I write for...

Gertrude Stein: I write for...

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear readers, are an after-thought.

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Mark Twain: A hypocritical Boston...

Mark Twain: A hypocritical Boston...

A hypocritical Boston tycoon once told Mark Twain, 'Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the top of Mount...

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Mark Twain: All I say...

Mark Twain: All I say...

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's...

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Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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Mark Twain: The way it...

Mark Twain: The way it...

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of...

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Honore de Balzac: It is easier...

Honore de Balzac: It is easier...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day...

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Honore de Balzac: I do not...

Honore de Balzac: I do not...

I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Why grab possessions...

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise...

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Mark Twain: A baby is...

Mark Twain: A baby is...

A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

Source: Letter to Annie Webster, 1...

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Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his...

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Mark Twain: He had had...

Mark Twain: He had had...

He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,...

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Mark Twain: I find that...

Mark Twain: I find that...

I find that the further I go back, the better things, whether they happened or not.

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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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Mark Twain: The human race...

Mark Twain: The human race...

The human race is a race of cowards; and I'm not only marching in that procession but carrying the...

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Mark Twain: The trouble with...

Mark Twain: The trouble with...

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't...

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Vaclav Havel: As soon as...

Vaclav Havel: As soon as...

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything,...

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James A Garfield: A university is...

James A Garfield: A university is...

A university is a student on one end of a pine log and Mark Hopkins [president of Williams College ] on the...

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