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Mark Twain: We should be...

Mark Twain: We should be...

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the...

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Mark Twain: We have the...

Mark Twain: We have the...

We have the best government that money can buy.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Mark Twain: Woman is unrivaled...

Mark Twain: Woman is unrivaled...

Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.

Source: Woman -- an Opinion, speech, to...

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Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved...

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Richard Bach: Your only obligation...

Richard Bach: Your only obligation...

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only...

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Edward Dahlberg: No country has...

Edward Dahlberg: No country has...

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the...

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Edward Dahlberg: There is a...

Edward Dahlberg: There is a...

There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world...

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Edward Dahlberg: I would rather...

Edward Dahlberg: I would rather...

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

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Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Source: In...

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Charles Dickens: Bring in the...

Charles Dickens: Bring in the...

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Source: The...

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Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Charles Dickens: Change begets change....

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, ch....

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Charles Dickens: Mr. and Mrs....

Charles Dickens: Mr. and Mrs....

Mr. and Mrs. Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the...

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Charles Dickens: He has gone...

Charles Dickens: He has gone...

He has gone to the demnition bow-wows.

Source: (Mr Mantalini) Nicholas Nickleby,...

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Charles Dickens: Say, like those...

Charles Dickens: Say, like those...

Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his...

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Charles Dickens: Wich is your...

Charles Dickens: Wich is your...

Wich is your partickler wanity? Wich wanity do you like the flavour on best, sir?

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Christopher Morley: God made man...

Christopher Morley: God made man...

God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he'd done on those Five Days.


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Marquis de Sade: The more defects...

Marquis de Sade: The more defects...

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Conversion for me...

Madeleine L'Engle: Conversion for me...

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my...

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J G Ballard: Given that external...

J G Ballard: Given that external...

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the...

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Evelyn Waugh: We schoolmasters must...

Evelyn Waugh: We schoolmasters must...

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Source: Dr. Fagan, in Decline...

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