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Thomas Carlyle: The gospel according...

Thomas Carlyle: The gospel according...

The gospel according to Jean Jacques.

Source: (Rousseau) French Revolution, Pt II....

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E B White: I arise in...

E B White: I arise in...

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the...

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Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will . . .

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Frederick Douglass: We had talked...

Frederick Douglass: We had talked...

We had talked long enough; we were now ready to move; if not now, we never should be; and if we did not intend to move...

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Frederick Douglass: If there is...

Frederick Douglass: If there is...

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation, are men...

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Elias Canetti: All the things...

Elias Canetti: All the things...

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Source: Die Provinz der...

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Margot Asquith: To marry a...

Margot Asquith: To marry a...

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had...

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Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough,...

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Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Remarks are not literature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Honore de Balzac: It is as...

Honore de Balzac: It is as...

It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.

Source: In Webster's...

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Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Honore de Balzac: Nothing is a...

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with...

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Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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E M Forster: Failure or success...

E M Forster: Failure or success...

Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

Madeleine L'Engle: I believe that...

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes two...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes two...

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Source: Little Women, 1868.
-- Louisa May...

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James Allen: The birds are...

James Allen: The birds are...

The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind one a year its errors, his heart once a year its...

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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: A wise man...

Mark Twain: A wise man...

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Source: In The...

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Mark Twain: Are you going...

Mark Twain: Are you going...

Are you going to hang him anyhow - and try him afterward?

Source: Innocents at...

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