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Mark Twain: A habit cannot...

Mark Twain: A habit cannot...

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a...

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Mark Twain: Do something every...

Mark Twain: Do something every...

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty...

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Mark Twain: It is difference...

Mark Twain: It is difference...

It is difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Source: Pudd'nhead Wilson Ch....

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Mark Twain: We should be...

Mark Twain: We should be...

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the...

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Mark Twain: When a man's...

Mark Twain: When a man's...

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to...

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Milan Kundera: A worker may...

Milan Kundera: A worker may...

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be...

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Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Boris Pasternak: Immensely grateful, touched,...

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

Source: Telegram accepting...

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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

Margaret Atwood: The Eskimos had...

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for...

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Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Evelyn Waugh: Instead of this...

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and...

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Evelyn Waugh: Particularly against books...

Evelyn Waugh: Particularly against books...

Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least...

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Richard Bach: You are never...

Richard Bach: You are never...

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it,...

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Mary McCarthy: Bureacracy, the rule...

Mary McCarthy: Bureacracy, the rule...

Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Source:...

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Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of...

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Charles Dickens: You can only...

Charles Dickens: You can only...

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick...

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Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can...

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Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...

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John Fowles: In essence the...

John Fowles: In essence the...

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest...

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Graham Henry Greene: Of course, before...

Graham Henry Greene: Of course, before...

Of course, before we know he is a saint, there will have to be miracles.

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George Eliot: It is possible...

George Eliot: It is possible...

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the...

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