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Charles Dickens: Orses and dorgs...

Charles Dickens: Orses and dorgs...

'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me.

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Charles Dickens: In came a...

Charles Dickens: In came a...

In came a fiddler - and tuned like fifty stomach-aches.
In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial...

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Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Source: (Sam Weller) Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: The man who...

Charles Dickens: The man who...

The man who knows only one subject is almost as tiresome as the man who knows no subject.

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Charles Dickens: This is a...

Charles Dickens: This is a...

This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
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Boris Pasternak: I come here...

Boris Pasternak: I come here...

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It...

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Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Boris Pasternak: Man is born...

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Source: Doctor Zhivago
-- Boris...

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Kingsley Amis: I want a...

Kingsley Amis: I want a...

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with...

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Kingsley Amis: More will mean...

Kingsley Amis: More will mean...

More will mean worse.

Source: Of the expansion of higher education. Article in...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Altered opinions do...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Altered opinions do...

Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Even today a...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Even today a...

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Health is the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Health is the...

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every man believes...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every man believes...

Every man believes he has a greater possibility.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I am not...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I am not...

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Hospitality: a little...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Hospitality: a little...

Hospitality: a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.

Source: In...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every reform was...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Every reform was...

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Extremes meet and...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Extremes meet and...

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: I cannot forgive...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: I cannot forgive...

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.

Source: Lectures and...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fame is proof...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fame is proof...

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: He presents me...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: He presents me...

He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He...

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