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Emily Dickinson: To fight aloud...

Emily Dickinson: To fight aloud...

To fight aloud is very brave,
But gallanter, I know,
Who charge within the bosom
The Cavalry of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Raphael paints wisdom;...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Raphael paints wisdom;...

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it,...

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Francis Bacon: The job of...

Francis Bacon: The job of...

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.

Source:
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan...

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Francis Bacon: The joys of...

Francis Bacon: The joys of...

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

Source: Of...

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GRAMMAR, n. A...

GRAMMAR, n. A...

GRAMMAR, n. A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he...

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REFUSAL, n. Denial...

REFUSAL, n. Denial...

REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: My name is...

Arthur Conan Doyle: My name is...

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

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Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice...

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Erica Jong: When I was...

Erica Jong: When I was...

When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it...

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Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.

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Erica Jong: Where is Hollywood...

Erica Jong: Where is Hollywood...

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by...

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G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

G K Chesterton: An adventure is...

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly...

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G K Chesterton: New roads: new...

G K Chesterton: New roads: new...

New roads: new ruts.

Source: Attrib.
-- G K Chesterton, (May 29 1874-1936),...

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G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

Source: In...

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Anatole France: The books that...

Anatole France: The books that...

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Source: In The...

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Aesop: Thinking to get...

Aesop: Thinking to get...

Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find -...

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Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at...

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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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