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Oscar Wilde: The one duty...

Oscar Wilde: The one duty...

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...

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Oscar Wilde: A subject that...

Oscar Wilde: A subject that...

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks...

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Abraham Lincoln: A person will...

Abraham Lincoln: A person will...

A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Source: In...

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Abraham Lincoln: I don't think...

Abraham Lincoln: I don't think...

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Source:...

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Abraham Lincoln: Labor is prior...

Abraham Lincoln: Labor is prior...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if...

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Abraham Lincoln: I will prepare...

Abraham Lincoln: I will prepare...

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Abraham Lincoln: Tell me what...

Abraham Lincoln: Tell me what...

Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other...

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Abraham Lincoln: I desire to...

Abraham Lincoln: I desire to...

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of...

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Abraham Lincoln: Important principles may...

Abraham Lincoln: Important principles may...

Important principles may and must be flexible.

Source: Speech, 4/11/1865 from his...

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Abraham Lincoln: Truth is generally...

Abraham Lincoln: Truth is generally...

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Source: Letter to...

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Abraham Lincoln: If I had...

Abraham Lincoln: If I had...

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax.

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G K Chesterton: You could compile...

G K Chesterton: You could compile...

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the...

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G K Chesterton: Experience which was...

G K Chesterton: Experience which was...

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

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G K Chesterton: A puritan is...

G K Chesterton: A puritan is...

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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Mark Twain: Only kings, editors,...

Mark Twain: Only kings, editors,...

Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial we.

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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: There's light enough...

Charles Dickens: There's light enough...

There's light enough for what I've got to do.

Source: (Bill Sikes) Oliver Twist,...

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Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

I've a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind . . . you behave yourself...

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Charles Dickens: There might be...

Charles Dickens: There might be...

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Source: (Mark Tapley) Martin Chuzzlewit,...

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Charles Dickens: Papa, potatoes, poultry,...

Charles Dickens: Papa, potatoes, poultry,...

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and...

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