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Mark Twain: Life does not...

Mark Twain: Life does not...

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought...

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Mark Twain: Only one thing...

Mark Twain: Only one thing...

Only one thing is impossible for God; to find any sense in any copyright law on the...

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Mark Twain: Pessimism is only...

Mark Twain: Pessimism is only...

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Source: In The...

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Mark Twain: The Christian's Bible...

Mark Twain: The Christian's Bible...

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice...

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Mark Twain: The master minds...

Mark Twain: The master minds...

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from...

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Mark Twain: The face of...

Mark Twain: The face of...

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book -- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated...

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Mark Twain: The waves most...

Mark Twain: The waves most...

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't...

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Mark Twain: We have not...

Mark Twain: We have not...

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as...

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Mark Twain: We ought never...

Mark Twain: We ought never...

We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov...

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Annie Dillard: You can't test...

Annie Dillard: You can't test...

You can't test courage cautiously.

Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...

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Anatole France: Irony is the...

Anatole France: Irony is the...

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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-- Anatole...

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Anatole France: I prefer the...

Anatole France: I prefer the...

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Source: In My...

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Aesop: We should look...

Aesop: We should look...

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Source: In The...

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Aesop: Little by little...

Aesop: Little by little...

Little by little does the trick.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Robertson Davies: There are times...

Robertson Davies: There are times...

There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind...

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Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.

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Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

Elizabeth Bowen: No object is...

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Source: The House in Paris,...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Let's face it...

Elizabeth Bowen: Let's face it...

Let's face it -- who ever is adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at...

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Annie Dillard: I woke at...

Annie Dillard: I woke at...

I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than...

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