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Mark Twain: India has 2,000,000...

Mark Twain: India has 2,000,000...

India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion other countries are paupers; India is the only...

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Mark Twain: But that's always...

Mark Twain: But that's always...

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got...

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Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as...

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Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who...

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Mark Twain: In statesmanship get...

Mark Twain: In statesmanship get...

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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George Eliot: Errors look so...

George Eliot: Errors look so...

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray;...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: For a country...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: For a country...

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has ever loved great...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Nowadays we don't...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Nowadays we don't...

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we...

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Richard Bach: Can miles truly...

Richard Bach: Can miles truly...

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already...

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Richard Bach: Listen to what...

Richard Bach: Listen to what...

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Richard Bach: I want to...

Richard Bach: I want to...

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me. That or...

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Edward Dahlberg: To write is...

Edward Dahlberg: To write is...

To write is a humiliation.

Source: The Carnal Myth, Introduction (1968).
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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: If you could...

Charles Dickens: If you could...

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection...

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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: I am quite...

Charles Dickens: I am quite...

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores...

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Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Charles Dickens: Uriah, with his...

Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist...

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Charles Dickens: Annual income twenty...

Charles Dickens: Annual income twenty...

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds,...

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Charles Dickens: Accidents will occur...

Charles Dickens: Accidents will occur...

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families.

Source: Mr. Micawber, in David...

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Charles Dickens: A lady of...

Charles Dickens: A lady of...

A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably...

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