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G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

G K Chesterton: The strangest whim...

The strangest whim has seized me
. . . After all
I think I will not hang myself...

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Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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Jerome K Jerome: If you desire...

Jerome K Jerome: If you desire...

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above...

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G K Chesterton: Fable is more...

G K Chesterton: Fable is more...

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million...

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G K Chesterton: Gullibility is the...

G K Chesterton: Gullibility is the...

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who get the...

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S J Perelman: The main obligation...

S J Perelman: The main obligation...

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...

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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is the...

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice...

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Milan Kundera: High culture is...

Milan Kundera: High culture is...

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going...

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Milan Kundera: Listening to a...

Milan Kundera: Listening to a...

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the...

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Charles Dickens: Wery glad to...

Charles Dickens: Wery glad to...

Wery glad to see you indeed, and hope our acquaintance may be a long 'un, as the gen'l'm'n said to the fi' pun'...

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Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. . . . The acts of people are baffling unless we realize...

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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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Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Anthony Burgess: Americans will listen,...

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which...

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Charles Dickens: It will be...

Charles Dickens: It will be...

It will be very generally found that those who will sneer habitually at human nature . . . are among its worst and...

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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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