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Mark Twain: If there was...

Mark Twain: If there was...

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

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Elias Canetti: The planet's survival...

Elias Canetti: The planet's survival...

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts...

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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Source: Quoted...

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Jerome K Jerome: We are so...

Jerome K Jerome: We are so...

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold...

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Ralph Ellison: If the word...

Ralph Ellison: If the word...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and...

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Honore de Balzac: No man should...

Honore de Balzac: No man should...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Source: Quoted in: Gods, in Adam, no. 299...

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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few...

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George Moore: A very slight...

George Moore: A very slight...

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the...

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Edgar Watson Howe: I try to...

Edgar Watson Howe: I try to...

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the...

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Mark Twain: You perceive I...

Mark Twain: You perceive I...

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's...

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Thomas Carlyle: To us also,...

Thomas Carlyle: To us also,...

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and...

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Thomas Carlyle: Violence does even...

Thomas Carlyle: Violence does even...

Violence does even justice unjustly.

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-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...

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Thomas Carlyle: There is a...

Thomas Carlyle: There is a...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not...

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Thomas Carlyle: Variety is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Variety is the...

Variety is the condition of harmony.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Thomas Carlyle: Thought is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Thought is the...

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Thomas Carlyle: Under all speech...

Thomas Carlyle: Under all speech...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is...

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Thomas Carlyle: Worship is transcendent...

Thomas Carlyle: Worship is transcendent...

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Source: On Heroes and Hero-Worship, lecture 1, The...

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