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Aesop: Any excuse will...

Aesop: Any excuse will...

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Source: 'The Wolf and the Lamb'
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Aesop: The injuries we...

Aesop: The injuries we...

The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

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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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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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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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Jerome K Jerome: Some people are...

Jerome K Jerome: Some people are...

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies...

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Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

Ralph Ellison: The understanding of...

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human...

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Honore de Balzac: With monuments as...

Honore de Balzac: With monuments as...

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Source: Droll Stories,...

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Honore de Balzac: Physically, a man...

Honore de Balzac: Physically, a man...

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: The man who...

G K Chesterton: The man who...

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a...

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G K Chesterton: A yawn is...

G K Chesterton: A yawn is...

A yawn is a silent shout.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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G K Chesterton: Reason is itself...

G K Chesterton: Reason is itself...

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any realtion to reality at...

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Frederick Douglass: A little learning,...

Frederick Douglass: A little learning,...

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any...

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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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E M Forster: Logic! Good...

E M Forster: Logic! Good...

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is of...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is of...

It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognise out of a number of facts which are...

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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: There is nothing...

Arthur Conan Doyle: There is nothing...

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Source: The Bascombe Valley...

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Erica Jong: I have accepted...

Erica Jong: I have accepted...

I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change. . . . I have gone ahead despite the...

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Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Source: Fear of Flying, 1973
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