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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Liberty is slow...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Liberty is slow...

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Manners are the...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Manners are the...

Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love --now repeated and hardened into...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Meek young men...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Meek young men...

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Our best thoughts...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Our best thoughts...

Our best thoughts come from others.

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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25...

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Djuna Barnes: To love without...

Djuna Barnes: To love without...

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Source: Nightwood, 1937.
-- Djuna...

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Doug Horton: The art of...

Doug Horton: The art of...

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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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.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: I pass my...

Charles Dickens: I pass my...

I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.

Source: (Mr...

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Charles Dickens: She's the only...

Charles Dickens: She's the only...

She's the only sylph I ever saw, who could stand upon one leg, and play the tambourine on her other knee, like a...

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Charles Dickens: It was a...

Charles Dickens: It was a...

It was a maxim with Foxey - our revered father, gentlemen - 'Always suspect everybody'.

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Charles Dickens: Old girl,' said...

Charles Dickens: Old girl,' said...

Old girl,' said Mr. Bagnet, 'give him my opinion. You know it.'

Source: Bleak...

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Charles Dickens: Far better hang...

Charles Dickens: Far better hang...

Far better hang wrong fler than no fler.

Source: (The debilitated cousin) Bleak...

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Charles Dickens: All of us...

Charles Dickens: All of us...

All of us have wonders hidden in our breasts, only needing circumstances to evoke them.

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Charles Dickens: They are so...

Charles Dickens: They are so...

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet...

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Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Barkis is willin'.

Source: David Copperfield, Ch. 5
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7...

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Charles Dickens: Cheerfulness and contentment...

Charles Dickens: Cheerfulness and contentment...

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful...

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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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Peter De Vries: You can make...

Peter De Vries: You can make...

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the...

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James Thurber: It is better...

James Thurber: It is better...

It is better to know some of the questions than all the answers.

Source: In 1,911...

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Christopher Morley: Big shots are...

Christopher Morley: Big shots are...

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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