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George Eliot: An egotist is...

George Eliot: An egotist is...

An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.

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George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts...

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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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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.

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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
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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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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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G K Chesterton: What people call...

G K Chesterton: What people call...

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental...

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G K Chesterton: Variability is one...

G K Chesterton: Variability is one...

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one...

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G K Chesterton: The word 'orthodoxy'...

G K Chesterton: The word 'orthodoxy'...

The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being...

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G K Chesterton: The successful businessman...

G K Chesterton: The successful businessman...

The successful businessman sometimes makes money by ability and experience, but he generally makes it by...

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G K Chesterton: How you think...

G K Chesterton: How you think...

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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G K Chesterton: When we were...

G K Chesterton: When we were...

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to...

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