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Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. . . . The acts of people are baffling unless we realize...

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Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser Iscariots than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the...

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Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!

Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...

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Charles Dickens: She's a swellin'...

Charles Dickens: She's a swellin'...

She's a swellin' wisibly before my wery eyes.

Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...

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Charles Dickens: At Mr Wackford...

Charles Dickens: At Mr Wackford...

At Mr Wackford Squeers's Academy, Dotheboys Hall . . . Youth are boarded, clothed, booked, furnished with...

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Charles Dickens: There are only...

Charles Dickens: There are only...

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: Yes I have...

Charles Dickens: Yes I have...

Yes I have a pair of eyes,' replied Sam, 'and that's just it. If they was a pair o' patent double million magnifyin'...

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E M Forster: I suggest that...

E M Forster: I suggest that...

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further...

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Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...

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George Eliot: The sense of...

George Eliot: The sense of...

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...

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George Eliot: One must be...

George Eliot: One must be...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...

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George Eliot: I at least...

George Eliot: I at least...

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...

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George Eliot: The presence of...

George Eliot: The presence of...

The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to...

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: She was no...

George Eliot: She was no...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: India has 2,000,000...

Mark Twain: India has 2,000,000...

India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only...

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Mark Twain: Let me make...

Mark Twain: Let me make...

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs...

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Mark Twain: In statesmanship get...

Mark Twain: In statesmanship get...

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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George Eliot: Few women, I...

George Eliot: Few women, I...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake...

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