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Mark Twain: I could never...

Mark Twain: I could never...

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in...

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Mark Twain: I don't like...

Mark Twain: I don't like...

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both...

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Mark Twain: It could probably...

Mark Twain: It could probably...

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except...

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Mark Twain: It is nobler...

Mark Twain: It is nobler...

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

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Mark Twain: Nothing helps scenery...

Mark Twain: Nothing helps scenery...

Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: Man is the...

Mark Twain: Man is the...

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Brendan Behan: I wish I'd...

Brendan Behan: I wish I'd...

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Source: The Hostage, II.
-- Brendan Behan, (Feb...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

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Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

Zora Neale Hurston: When a man...

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.

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George Bernard Shaw: What really flatters...

George Bernard Shaw: What really flatters...

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Source:...

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J B Priestley: Public opinion polls...

J B Priestley: Public opinion polls...

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're...

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George Farquhar: I have fed...

George Farquhar: I have fed...

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

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Antonin Artaud: So long as...

Antonin Artaud: So long as...

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to...

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Charlotte Bronte: A ruffled mind...

Charlotte Bronte: A ruffled mind...

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Source: The Professor, 1846.
--...

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Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Aeschylus: Memory is the...

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Source: Prometheus Bound.
-- Aeschylus, ( ...

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William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

William Wordsworth: O'er rough and...

O'er rough and smooth she trips along,
And never looks behind;
And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the...

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William Wordsworth: I have felt<br>A...

William Wordsworth: I have felt
A...

I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far...

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William Wordsworth: I have learned<br>To...

William Wordsworth: I have learned
To...

I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth: but hearing oftentimes
The still,...

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William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

William Wordsworth: Some sipping punch,...

Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,
But, as you by their faces see,
All silent and all...

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William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

William Wordsworth: The oldest man...

The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.

Source: Resolution and...

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