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George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...

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George Eliot: Children demand that...

George Eliot: Children demand that...

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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George Eliot: A supreme love,...

George Eliot: A supreme love,...

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the...

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George Eliot: Speech is often...

George Eliot: Speech is often...

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...

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George Eliot: When death comes...

George Eliot: When death comes...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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Christopher Morley: From now until...

Christopher Morley: From now until...

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my...

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Christopher Morley: There is no...

Christopher Morley: There is no...

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the...

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Christopher Morley: When you sell...

Christopher Morley: When you sell...

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue you sell him a whole new...

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Mark Twain: An Englishman is...

Mark Twain: An Englishman is...

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things...

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Mark Twain: Take your mind...

Mark Twain: Take your mind...

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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Mark Twain: As a rule...

Mark Twain: As a rule...

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea...

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Mark Twain: It takes your...

Mark Twain: It takes your...

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other...

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Mark Twain: I can understand...

Mark Twain: I can understand...

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an...

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G K Chesterton: God made the...

G K Chesterton: God made the...

God made the wicked Grocer
For a mystery and a sign,
That men might shun the awful shop
And go to inns to...

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G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to...

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G K Chesterton: Brave men are...

G K Chesterton: Brave men are...

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Talent is always...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Talent is always...

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Forget the outside world. Life has different laws in here. This is Campland, an invisible country. It's not in the...

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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