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George Eliot: If we had...

George Eliot: If we had...

If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we...

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George Eliot: Self-confidence is apt...

George Eliot: Self-confidence is apt...

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a...

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George Eliot: No great deed...

George Eliot: No great deed...

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either...

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Richard Bach: You don't tell...

Richard Bach: You don't tell...

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Source: In...

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Aesop: Slow and steady...

Aesop: Slow and steady...

Slow and steady wins the race.

Source: The Hare and the Tortoise.
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Aesop: Any excuse will...

Aesop: Any excuse will...

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Source: 'The Wolf and the Lamb'
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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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Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real...

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Mark Twain: You perceive I...

Mark Twain: You perceive I...

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's...

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