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G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what...

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G K Chesterton: It is as...

G K Chesterton: It is as...

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Source: Generally Speaking, ...

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Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always...

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Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, `in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never...

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Charles Dickens: Keep out of...

Charles Dickens: Keep out of...

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to...

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Charles Dickens: Known by the...

Charles Dickens: Known by the...

Known by the sobriquet of 'The artful Dodger.'

Source: Oliver Twist, Ch. 8
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G K Chesterton: Fools! For I...

G K Chesterton: Fools! For I...

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet;
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms...

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Christopher Morley: People like to...

Christopher Morley: People like to...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster,...

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Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever...

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George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3, 1868.
-- George...

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George Eliot: He was like...

George Eliot: He was like...

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Source: Adam...

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Men do not...

Men do not...

Men do not suspect faults which they do not commit.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Lawyers know life...

Lawyers know life...

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

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Power is not...

Power is not...

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Sir, your wife,...

Sir, your wife,...

Sir, your wife, under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.

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The happiest part...

The happiest part...

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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Self-interest is but...

Self-interest is but...

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with...

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Time and space...

Time and space...

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.

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Please don't ask...

Please don't ask...

Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.

Source:...

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Jews and homosexuals...

Jews and homosexuals...

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the...

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