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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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G K Chesterton: You have weighed...

G K Chesterton: You have weighed...

You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span:
Take, if you must have answer, the word...

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G K Chesterton: The ordinary scientific...

G K Chesterton: The ordinary scientific...

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is...

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G K Chesterton: If a thing...

G K Chesterton: If a thing...

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Source: What's Wrong with 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: When truth is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of it attractiveness.

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Jean Paul: The end we...

Jean Paul: The end we...

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Source: In The...

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James Thurber: While he was...

James Thurber: While he was...

While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either.

Source: In The...

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Christopher Morley: Man makes a...

Christopher Morley: Man makes a...

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the...

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Christopher Morley: People like to...

Christopher Morley: People like to...

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster,...

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E M Forster: Happiness in the...

E M Forster: Happiness in the...

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true...

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