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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 expect a...

Charles Dickens: I expect a...

I expect a judgment. Shortly.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 3
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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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Mark Twain: There was worlds...

Mark Twain: There was worlds...

There was worlds of reputation in it, but no money.

Source: A Yankee at the Court...

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Mark Twain: There are people...

Mark Twain: There are people...

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any...

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Mark Twain: To arrive at...

Mark Twain: To arrive at...

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not...

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Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Milan Kundera: Let us consider...

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Source: On...

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Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Source: On the anger and death...

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Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private...

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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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Mark Twain: If you pick...

Mark Twain: If you pick...

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...

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George Eliot: Great feelings will...

George Eliot: Great feelings will...

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...

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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: The only failure...

George Eliot: The only failure...

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

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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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Henry Ward Beecher: A man's true...

Henry Ward Beecher: A man's true...

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Henry Ward Beecher: All true ambition...

Henry Ward Beecher: All true ambition...

All true ambition and aspiration are without comparisons.

Source: Life Thoughts/...

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Henry Ward Beecher: Nothing dies so...

Henry Ward Beecher: Nothing dies so...

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

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-- Henry Ward...

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