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E B White: Whatever else an...

E B White: Whatever else an...

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of...

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George Eliot: There is much...

George Eliot: There is much...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the...

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George Eliot: For what we...

George Eliot: For what we...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a willing movement of...

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George Eliot: Best friend, my...

George Eliot: Best friend, my...

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!

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

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: There is only...

George Eliot: There is only...

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one...

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George Eliot: The law and...

George Eliot: The law and...

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes...

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George Eliot: Human beings must...

George Eliot: Human beings must...

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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P G Wodehouse: He spoke with...

P G Wodehouse: He spoke with...

He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from...

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P G Wodehouse: To find a...

P G Wodehouse: To find a...

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Source: In The Golfer's Book of...

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George Eliot: I've never any...

George Eliot: I've never any...

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with...

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George Eliot: Jealousy is never...

George Eliot: Jealousy is never...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Their teacher had advised them not to read Tolstoy novels, because they were very long and would easily confuse the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Source: Speech, 1972.
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Jane Austen: You have delighted...

Jane Austen: You have delighted...

You have delighted us long enough.

Source: Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 18
-- Jane...

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Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach...

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Richard Bach: Two things I...

Richard Bach: Two things I...

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like...

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G K Chesterton: There is one...

G K Chesterton: There is one...

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the...

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G K Chesterton: Being contented ought...

G K Chesterton: Being contented ought...

Being contented ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not...

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G K Chesterton: Buddhism is not...

G K Chesterton: Buddhism is not...

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Source: Professor de Worms, in The Man Who...

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