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Mark Twain: The radical of...

Mark Twain: The radical of...

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out,...

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George Eliot: Our consciousness rarely...

George Eliot: Our consciousness rarely...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many...

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George Eliot: Tis God gives...

George Eliot: Tis God gives...

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without...

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George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish,...

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George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: Among all forms...

George Eliot: Among all forms...

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Source: Middlemarch,...

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Edward Dahlberg: The earnings of...

Edward Dahlberg: The earnings of...

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

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Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

Edward Dahlberg: No people require...

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always...

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Charles Dickens: I only ask...

Charles Dickens: I only ask...

I only ask for information.

Source: (Rosa Dartle) David Copperfield, Ch. 20
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Charles Dickens: Stranger, pause and...

Charles Dickens: Stranger, pause and...

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush...

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Charles Dickens: Such is hope,...

Charles Dickens: Such is hope,...

Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things...

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Charles Dickens: There are books...

Charles Dickens: There are books...

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Source: In...

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Charles Dickens: If there were...

Charles Dickens: If there were...

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Source: Mr. Brass, in...

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Charles Dickens: It's my old...

Charles Dickens: It's my old...

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be...

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Charles Dickens: I have known...

Charles Dickens: I have known...

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that...

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Charles Dickens: O let us...

Charles Dickens: O let us...

O let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always...

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Mark Twain: There is no...

Mark Twain: There is no...

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Scientists have odious...

Mark Twain: Scientists have odious...

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of...

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Mark Twain: Noise proves nothing....

Mark Twain: Noise proves nothing....

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she laid an...

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