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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: Most people of...

Honore de Balzac: Most people of...

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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Douglas Coupland: New York is...

Douglas Coupland: New York is...

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Source: In Collection of...

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Douglas Coupland: Make your goals...

Douglas Coupland: Make your goals...

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse...

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Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Frederick Douglass: Man's greatness consists...

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: My mind rebels...

Arthur Conan Doyle: My mind rebels...

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: I never guess....

Arthur Conan Doyle: I never guess....

I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: When a doctor...

Arthur Conan Doyle: When a doctor...

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Youth is about...

Edgar Watson Howe: Youth is about...

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

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Edgar Watson Howe: To know when...

Edgar Watson Howe: To know when...

To know when to be generous and when firm -- this is wisdom.

Source: The...

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Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Source: In My Autobiography,...

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Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it...

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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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The love of...

The love of...

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

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The mind is...

The mind is...

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principle subject; the reader is weary,...

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This mournful truth...

This mournful truth...

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.


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There are charms...

There are charms...

There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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What is written...

What is written...

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Source: Quoted...

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We are inclined...

We are inclined...

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

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Were it not...

Were it not...

Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a...

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