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Mark Twain: Put all your...

Mark Twain: Put all your...

Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- Watch That Basket.

Source: Pudd'nhead...

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Mark Twain: Don't, like the...

Mark Twain: Don't, like the...

Don't, like the cat, try to get more out of an experience than there is in it. The cat, having sat upon a hot stove...

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Charles Dickens: Subscribe to our...

Charles Dickens: Subscribe to our...

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral...

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Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

We didn't find that it [London] come up to its likeness in the red bills - it is there drawd too...

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Charles Dickens: There's milestones on...

Charles Dickens: There's milestones on...

There's milestones on the Dover Road!

Source: (Mr F.'s Aunt) Little Dorrit, Bk i....

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Charles Dickens: She is come...

Charles Dickens: She is come...

She is come at last - at last - and all is gas and gaiters!

Source: (The Gentleman...

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Charles Dickens: In came a...

Charles Dickens: In came a...

In came a fiddler - and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.
In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial...

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Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Source: (Sam Weller) Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: It is sometimes...

Charles Dickens: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of...

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Charles Dickens: This is a...

Charles Dickens: This is a...

This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
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Charles Dickens: Buy an annuity...

Charles Dickens: Buy an annuity...

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the...

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George Eliot: Failure after long...

George Eliot: Failure after long...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...

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Jane Austen: An engaged woman...

Jane Austen: An engaged woman...

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and...

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Jane Austen: I have been...

Jane Austen: I have been...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. ...

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E B White: Shocking writing is...

E B White: Shocking writing is...

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and...

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Peter De Vries: Anyone informed that...

Peter De Vries: Anyone informed that...

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to...

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Jean Paul: Joys are our...

Jean Paul: Joys are our...

Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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P G Wodehouse: She fitted into...

P G Wodehouse: She fitted into...

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs...

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Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

Madeleine L'Engle: The great thing...

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

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