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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: With men he...

Jane Austen: With men he...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature...

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Jane Austen: The post-office had...

Jane Austen: The post-office had...

The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think...

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Douglas Adams: To give real...

Douglas Adams: To give real...

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and...

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Douglas Adams: I may not...

Douglas Adams: I may not...

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to...

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James Allen: To begin to...

James Allen: To begin to...

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the...

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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-- 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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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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