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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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Annie Dillard: It could be...

Annie Dillard: It could be...

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of...

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Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Eternity -- waste of time.

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

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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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Mark Twain: A soiled baby,...

Mark Twain: A soiled baby,...

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of...

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Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years --...

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Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for...

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Mark Twain: I was young...

Mark Twain: I was young...

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Source: In 1,911 Best...

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Mark Twain: I would like...

Mark Twain: I would like...

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be...

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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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Mark Twain: In the South,...

Mark Twain: In the South,...

In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.

Source: Life on...

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Mark Twain: Loyalty to petrified...

Mark Twain: Loyalty to petrified...

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never...

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Douglas Coupland: Nothing very very...

Douglas Coupland: Nothing very very...

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.

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E B White: A candidate could...

E B White: A candidate could...

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Few people have...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Few people have...

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Government has come...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Government has come...

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: All of life...

Friedrich Nietzsche: All of life...

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Idleness is the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Idleness is the...

Idleness is the parent of all psychology.

Source: Twilight of the Idols, 'Maxims...

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