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P G Wodehouse: Success comes to...

P G Wodehouse: Success comes to...

Success comes to a writer, as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and...

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Jean Paul: No rest is...

Jean Paul: No rest is...

No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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James Thurber: Why do you...

James Thurber: Why do you...

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

Source: Attrib. Actually...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Believe me! The...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Believe me! The...

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Fanatics are picturesque,...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Fanatics are picturesque,...

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: By persisting in...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: By persisting in...

By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.

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Henry Ward Beecher: In this world...

Henry Ward Beecher: In this world...

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

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Doug Horton: First rule of...

Doug Horton: First rule of...

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a...

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Mark Twain: A joke, even...

Mark Twain: A joke, even...

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder...

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Mark Twain: Fortune knocks at...

Mark Twain: Fortune knocks at...

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and...

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Mark Twain: Everyone is a...

Mark Twain: Everyone is a...

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anyone.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Golf is a...

Mark Twain: Golf is a...

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Source: Attributed; quoted in Greatly Exaggerated, ed....

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Mark Twain: Humor is mankind's...

Mark Twain: Humor is mankind's...

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

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

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Mark Twain: It is better...

Mark Twain: It is better...

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve...

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Mark Twain: Laws are sand,...

Mark Twain: Laws are sand,...

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings...

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Madeleine L'Engle: It is the...

Madeleine L'Engle: It is the...

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Source: Walking on Water:...

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Anatole France: People who have...

Anatole France: People who have...

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way to take advantage of them.

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Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by...

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Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

Ralph Ellison: It takes a...

It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

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George Moore: The lot of...

George Moore: The lot of...

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

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