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Mark Twain: Public opinion is...

Mark Twain: Public opinion is...

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of...

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Mark Twain: People are much...

Mark Twain: People are much...

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Source: In The...

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Mark Twain: The cross of...

Mark Twain: The cross of...

The cross of the Legion of Honour has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that...

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Mark Twain: Rail-splitting produced an...

Mark Twain: Rail-splitting produced an...

Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1...

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Mark Twain: We are all...

Mark Twain: We are all...

We are all alike, on the inside.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US...

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Mark Twain: Twenty years from...

Mark Twain: Twenty years from...

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So...

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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: All other men...

Arthur Conan Doyle: All other men...

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Source: Sherlock...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the...

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Erica Jong: I went for...

Erica Jong: I went for...

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had...

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Edgar Watson Howe: A theory is...

Edgar Watson Howe: A theory is...

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Source: In The...

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Edgar Watson Howe: You can't do...

Edgar Watson Howe: You can't do...

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very...

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Mark Twain: We owe a...

Mark Twain: We owe a...

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the...

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Mark Twain: What, sir, would...

Mark Twain: What, sir, would...

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Then let us...

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Annie Dillard: You can't test...

Annie Dillard: You can't test...

You can't test courage cautiously.

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...

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Aesop: It is in...

Aesop: It is in...

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

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Robertson Davies: There are times...

Robertson Davies: There are times...

There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Source: The House in Paris, 1936
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Annie Dillard: There is a...

Annie Dillard: There is a...

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the...

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Annie Dillard: How we spend...

Annie Dillard: How we spend...

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Source: The Writing...

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