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Mark Twain: Let us consider...

Mark Twain: Let us consider...

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it...

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Mark Twain: One of the...

Mark Twain: One of the...

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine...

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Mark Twain: Such is the...

Mark Twain: Such is the...

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the...

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Mark Twain: Temperate temperance is...

Mark Twain: Temperate temperance is...

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

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Mark Twain: The highest perfection...

Mark Twain: The highest perfection...

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and...

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Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Aesop: Kindness effects more...

Kindness effects more than severity.

Source: 'The Wind and the Sun'
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Robertson Davies: Authors like cats...

Robertson Davies: Authors like cats...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same...

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Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...

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Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...

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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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Alvin Toffler: Technology feeds on...

Alvin Toffler: Technology feeds on...

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Source: In...

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Honore de Balzac: Modesty is the...

Honore de Balzac: Modesty is the...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Source:
-- Honore de Balzac, (May 20...

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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: I prefer thought...

Honore de Balzac: I prefer thought...

I prefer thought to action, an idea to an event, reflection to activity.

Source: In...

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Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Source: In...

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George Moore: There is nothing...

George Moore: There is nothing...

There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's...

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Edgar Watson Howe: I never met...

Edgar Watson Howe: I never met...

I never met a man so mean that I was not willing he should admire me.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: The paradox of...

G K Chesterton: The paradox of...

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep...

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G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to...

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G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

G K Chesterton: Tea, although an...

Tea, although an Oriental,
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar...

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