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E M Forster: The traveller who...

E M Forster: The traveller who...

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes . . . . we make mistakes because the easiest...

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Jane Austen: A single woman...

Jane Austen: A single woman...

A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls; but a single...

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Jane Austen: From this day...

Jane Austen: From this day...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not...

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Jane Austen: We met ....

Jane Austen: We met ....

We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...

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Jane Austen: The little bit...

Jane Austen: The little bit...

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...

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Douglas Adams: You live and...

Douglas Adams: You live and...

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Source: From a collection of quotations...

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James Allen: The will to...

James Allen: The will to...

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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James Allen: Our life is...

James Allen: Our life is...

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people,...

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Richard Bach: Argue for your...

Richard Bach: Argue for your...

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

Source: In Webster's...

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Richard Bach: Every gift from...

Richard Bach: Every gift from...

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. . .

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Charles Dickens: Great men are...

Charles Dickens: Great men are...

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

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Charles Dickens: If you could...

Charles Dickens: If you could...

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection...

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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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Charles Dickens: I live on...

Charles Dickens: I live on...

I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.

Source: (The Waiter) David...

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Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
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John Steinbeck: People need responsibility....

John Steinbeck: People need responsibility....

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

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John Steinbeck: The discipline of...

John Steinbeck: The discipline of...

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

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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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Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

Evelyn Waugh: The human mind...

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it...

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