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Edward Dahlberg: Genius, like truth,...

Edward Dahlberg: Genius, like truth,...

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Source: Alms for Oblivion, ...

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Edward Dahlberg: Perhaps Samuel Johnson...

Edward Dahlberg: Perhaps Samuel Johnson...

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

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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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Edward Dahlberg: Recognise the cunning...

Edward Dahlberg: Recognise the cunning...

Recognise the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the...

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Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

Charles Dickens: I've a pretty...

I've a pretty large experience of boys, and you're a bad set of fellows. Now mind . . . you behave yourself...

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Charles Dickens: He's tough, ma'am,...

Charles Dickens: He's tough, ma'am,...

He's tough, ma'am, tough, is J. B. Tough and devilish sly!

Source: (Major Bagstock)...

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Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Charles Dickens: Oh Sammy, Sammy,...

Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi!

Source: (Mr Weller) Pickwick Papers,...

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Charles Dickens: There might be...

Charles Dickens: There might be...

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Source: (Mark Tapley) Martin Chuzzlewit,...

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Charles Dickens: There are only...

Charles Dickens: There are only...

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

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James Thurber: There is, of...

James Thurber: There is, of...

There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunneling...

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Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before...

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Richard Bach: Learning is finding...

Richard Bach: Learning is finding...

Learning is finding out what you already know

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-- Richard Bach, (Jun 23...

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E M Forster: The only books...

E M Forster: The only books...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our...

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Evelyn Waugh: What is youth...

Evelyn Waugh: What is youth...

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

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Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us...

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never...

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John Fowles: There are only...

John Fowles: There are only...

There are only two races on this planet -- the intelligent and the stupid.

Source:...

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Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established...

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Joseph Heller: I think in...

Joseph Heller: I think in...

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going...

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George Eliot: But the mother's...

George Eliot: But the mother's...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...

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George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder...

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