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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Jessamyn West: I have done...

Jessamyn West: I have done...

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to...

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Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being...

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Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Source: Idle Thoughts...

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Jerome K Jerome: The shy man...

Jerome K Jerome: The shy man...

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain...

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Alvin Toffler: Most managers were...

Alvin Toffler: Most managers were...

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.

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Honore de Balzac: Vocations which we...

Honore de Balzac: Vocations which we...

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our...

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Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

Honore de Balzac: The majority of...

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutang trying to play the violin.

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Fatalism is the...

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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G K Chesterton: The most wonderful...

G K Chesterton: The most wonderful...

The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: You could compile...

G K Chesterton: You could compile...

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the...

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G K Chesterton: I regard golf...

G K Chesterton: I regard golf...

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Source: In Webster's...

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G K Chesterton: To be simple...

G K Chesterton: To be simple...

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being...

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G K Chesterton: A puritan is...

G K Chesterton: A puritan is...

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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G K Chesterton: I've searched all...

G K Chesterton: I've searched all...

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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G K Chesterton: All slang is...

G K Chesterton: All slang is...

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Source: The Defendant.
-- G K...

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G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

G K Chesterton: The rolling English...

The rolling English drunkard made the rolling
English road.
A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles...

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Frederick Douglass: I prefer to...

Frederick Douglass: I prefer to...

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to...

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