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G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

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G K Chesterton: Tradition does not...

G K Chesterton: Tradition does not...

Tradition does not mean the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

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G K Chesterton: When you break...

G K Chesterton: When you break...

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small...

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G K Chesterton: Reason is itself...

G K Chesterton: Reason is itself...

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any realtion to reality at...

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Henry David Thoreau: Disobedience is the...

Henry David Thoreau: Disobedience is the...

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

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Henry David Thoreau: Almost any man...

Henry David Thoreau: Almost any man...

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

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Henry David Thoreau: Must be out-of-doors...

Henry David Thoreau: Must be out-of-doors...

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health...

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Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Honore de Balzac: The duration of...

Honore de Balzac: The duration of...

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

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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: 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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Albert Schweitzer: Seek always to...

Albert Schweitzer: Seek always to...

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give...

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Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

Marguerite Duras: The woman is...

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man...

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Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

Marguerite Duras: The thing that's...

The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a...

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Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

Judith Viorst: One advantage of...

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with...

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Charles Dickens: Any man may...

Charles Dickens: Any man may...

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There an't much credit in...

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Charles Dickens: Circumstances beyond my...

Charles Dickens: Circumstances beyond my...

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Source: (Mr Micawber) David...

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Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

Charles Dickens: It's over, and...

It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cuts the wrong...

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John Steinbeck: Somewhere in the...

John Steinbeck: Somewhere in the...

Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by...

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Salman Rushdie: A poet's work...

Salman Rushdie: A poet's work...

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop...

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