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Ralph Waldo Emerson: All our progress...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: All our progress...

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: An empire is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: An empire is...

An empire is an immense egotism.

Source: The Young American, lecture, 7 Feb 1844,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Earth laughs in...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Earth laughs in...

Earth laughs in flowers.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Classic art was...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Classic art was...

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and...

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Edward Dahlberg: One cat in...

Edward Dahlberg: One cat in...

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.

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G K Chesterton: Journalism largely consists...

G K Chesterton: Journalism largely consists...

Journalism largely consists in saying `Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was...

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G K Chesterton: A building is...

G K Chesterton: A building is...

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a...

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G K Chesterton: The timidity of...

G K Chesterton: The timidity of...

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is...

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G K Chesterton: The average man...

G K Chesterton: The average man...

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with...

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G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

G K Chesterton: THE UNIVERSE: The...

THE UNIVERSE: The most exquisite masterpiece ever composed by nobody.

Source:...

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George Eliot: There is nothing...

George Eliot: There is nothing...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...

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George Eliot: A toddling little...

George Eliot: A toddling little...

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each...

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George Eliot: This is a...

George Eliot: This is a...

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver,...

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George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

George Eliot: Prophecy is the...

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 1, ch. 10,...

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George Eliot: He was at...

George Eliot: He was at...

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen...

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George Eliot: Our words have...

George Eliot: Our words have...

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3,...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...

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Jerome K Jerome: But there, everything...

Jerome K Jerome: But there, everything...

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of that...

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Mark Twain: Morals are an...

Mark Twain: Morals are an...

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with...

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