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Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

Elizabeth Bowen: All your youth...

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are...

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Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very...

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Jessamyn West: If I were...

Jessamyn West: If I were...

If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a...

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Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and listen to it, for it...

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Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

Alvin Toffler: You simply *must*...

You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.

Source: From a collection...

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Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also...

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Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Source: Droll...

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Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Honore de Balzac: If we could...

Honore de Balzac: If we could...

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Source: In The...

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Honore de Balzac: When women love...

Honore de Balzac: When women love...

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Source: Samples...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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Honore de Balzac: The more one...

Honore de Balzac: The more one...

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Aesop: Appearances are often...

Aesop: Appearances are often...

Appearances are often deceiving.

Source: 'The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'
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Charles Dickens: That's rather a...

Charles Dickens: That's rather a...

'That's rather a sudden pull up, ain't it, Sammy?' inquired Mr Weller. `Not a bit on it,' said Sam; `she'll vish...

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Charles Dickens: Mr Podsnap settled...

Charles Dickens: Mr Podsnap settled...

Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a...

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P G Wodehouse: I spent the...

P G Wodehouse: I spent the...

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else,...

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P G Wodehouse: It is a...

P G Wodehouse: It is a...

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take...

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P G Wodehouse: He was white...

P G Wodehouse: He was white...

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

Source: Describing a startled...

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