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Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

Louisa May Alcott: All is fish...

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into...

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George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...

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George Eliot: The law and...

George Eliot: The law and...

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes...

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George Eliot: Cruelty, like every...

George Eliot: Cruelty, like every...

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The salvation of...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The salvation of...

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Source:...

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Milan Kundera: Happiness is the...

Milan Kundera: Happiness is the...

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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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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Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Mary McCarthy: Labor is work...

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field,...

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Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Edward Dahlberg: Everything ultimately fails,...

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical...

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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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Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to...

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Charles Dickens: I feel an...

Charles Dickens: I feel an...

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless...

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Charles Dickens: Our backs is...

Charles Dickens: Our backs is...

Our backs is easy ris. We must be cracked-up, or they rises, and we snarls. We shows our teeth, I tell you, fierce....

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Charles Dickens: When he has...

Charles Dickens: When he has...

When he has learnt that bottinney means a knowledge of plants, he goes and knows 'em. That's our system, Nickleby;...

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Charles Dickens: He had used...

Charles Dickens: He had used...

He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.

Source: (Mr Blotton) Pickwick...

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Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
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Mark Twain: I have not...

Mark Twain: I have not...

I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.

Source: In...

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James A Garfield: [The President is]...

James A Garfield: [The President is]...

[The President is] the last person in the world to know what the people really want and...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: As I approve...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: As I approve...

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has...

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