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Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

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Jane Austen: It is a...

Jane Austen: It is a...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a...

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Richard Bach: Don't be dismayed...

Richard Bach: Don't be dismayed...

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or...

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Richard Bach: Real love stories...

Richard Bach: Real love stories...

Real love stories never have endings.

Source: The Bridge Across Forever
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John Steinbeck: It has always...

John Steinbeck: It has always...

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and losses has it...

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Edward Dahlberg: Ambition is a...

Edward Dahlberg: Ambition is a...

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is...

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Edward Dahlberg: Man hoards himself...

Edward Dahlberg: Man hoards himself...

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Source: Reasons of the Heart, ...

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Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

Edward Dahlberg: We are a...

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of...

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Edward Dahlberg: We can only...

Edward Dahlberg: We can only...

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the...

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Charles Dickens: We know, Mr....

Charles Dickens: We know, Mr....

We know, Mr. Weller -- we, who are men of the world -- that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or...

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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: Cows are my...

Charles Dickens: Cows are my...

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by...

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Charles Dickens: Once a gentleman,...

Charles Dickens: Once a gentleman,...

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Source: (Rigaud) Little Dorrit, Bk. ii....

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Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

I'm Gormed - and I can't say no fairer than that!

Source: (Mr Peggotty) David...

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Charles Dickens: Battledore and shuttlecock's...

Charles Dickens: Battledore and shuttlecock's...

Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which...

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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.

Source:...

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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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Milan Kundera: Nothing requires a...

Milan Kundera: Nothing requires a...

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of...

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