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Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

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Edward Dahlberg: The newspaper has...

Edward Dahlberg: The newspaper has...

The newspaper has debauched the American until he is a slavish, simpering, and angerless citizen; it has taught him to...

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Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a...

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Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

Anthony Burgess: The unconscious mind...

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Source: In...

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Charles Dickens: It couldn't exist...

Charles Dickens: It couldn't exist...

It couldn't exist without allonging and marshonging to something or other.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: We've got a...

Charles Dickens: We've got a...

We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's...

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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: Something will come...

Charles Dickens: Something will come...

Something will come of this. I hope it mayn't be human gore.

Source: (Simon...

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Charles Dickens: It is sometimes...

Charles Dickens: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of...

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Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mark Twain: Each person is...

Mark Twain: Each person is...

Each person is born to one possession which out values all his others -- his last breath.

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Mark Twain: It was the...

Mark Twain: It was the...

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Source:...

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George Eliot: It will never...

George Eliot: It will never...

It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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George Eliot: Life is too...

George Eliot: Life is too...

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...

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George Eliot: Necessity does the...

George Eliot: Necessity does the...

Necessity does the work of courage.

Source: Romola, 1863
-- George Eliot, (Nov...

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Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Jane Austen: Human nature is...

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either...

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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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Douglas Adams: He felt that...

Douglas Adams: He felt that...

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were...

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E M Forster: Unless we remember...

E M Forster: Unless we remember...

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Salman Rushdie: Books choose their...

Salman Rushdie: Books choose their...

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious...

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