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Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother,...

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Charles Dickens: Subscribe to our...

Charles Dickens: Subscribe to our...

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral...

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Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, `in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never...

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Charles Dickens: It couldn't exist...

Charles Dickens: It couldn't exist...

It couldn't exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: Ain't I volatile?...

Charles Dickens: Ain't I volatile?...

Ain't I volatile?

Source: (Miss Mowcher) David Copperfield, Ch. 22
-- Charles...

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Charles Dickens: It was not...

Charles Dickens: It was not...

It was not a bosom to repose upon, but it was a capital bosom to hang jewels upon.

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Charles Dickens: Nature gives to...

Charles Dickens: Nature gives to...

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the...

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Charles Dickens: Whatever was required...

Charles Dickens: Whatever was required...

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art...

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Charles Dickens: There is a...

Charles Dickens: There is a...

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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Charles Dickens: It was as...

Charles Dickens: It was as...

It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Source: Mr. Barkis, in...

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Charles Dickens: It opens the...

Charles Dickens: It opens the...

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry...

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Charles Dickens: It's always best...

Charles Dickens: It's always best...

It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass....

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E M Forster: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...

E M Forster: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of...

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E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Source: A Passage to India, pt. 1, ch. 7, 1924.
-- E M...

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P G Wodehouse: Never put anything...

P G Wodehouse: Never put anything...

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

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Mark Twain: You can't depend...

Mark Twain: You can't depend...

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Source: In...

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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: Humor must not...

Mark Twain: Humor must not...

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live...

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Mark Twain: Write without pay...

Mark Twain: Write without pay...

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were...

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