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G K Chesterton: White founts falling...

G K Chesterton: White founts falling...

White founts falling in the courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they...

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G K Chesterton: The poor have...

G K Chesterton: The poor have...

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at...

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G K Chesterton: A dying monarchy...

G K Chesterton: A dying monarchy...

A dying monarchy is always one that has too much power, not too little; a dying religion always interferes more than...

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G K Chesterton: Strong gongs groaning...

G K Chesterton: Strong gongs groaning...

Strong gongs groaning as the guns boom far,
Don John of Austria is going to the war.


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G K Chesterton: You can never...

G K Chesterton: You can never...

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a...

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G K Chesterton: `The Christian ideal,'...

G K Chesterton: `The Christian ideal,'...

`The Christian ideal,' it is said, `has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...

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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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Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce...

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Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser Iscariots than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the...

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Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Charles Dickens: Literature should stand...

Literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.

Source: In Webster's...

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Charles Dickens: There is a...

Charles Dickens: There is a...

There is a dread disease which so prepares its victim, as it were, for death . . . a disease in which death and life...

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Charles Dickens: I wants to...

Charles Dickens: I wants to...

I wants to make your flesh creep.

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch. 8
-- Charles...

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Charles Dickens: Poetry's unnat'ral; no...

Charles Dickens: Poetry's unnat'ral; no...

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Source:...

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