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Peter De Vries: There are times...

Peter De Vries: There are times...

There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.

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Mark Twain: Duties are not...

Mark Twain: Duties are not...

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs...

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Margot Asquith: It is easier...

Margot Asquith: It is easier...

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Source: More or Less...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Let this great...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Let this great...

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide --
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that...

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G K Chesterton: One sees great...

G K Chesterton: One sees great...

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Source: The...

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G K Chesterton: If a thing...

G K Chesterton: If a thing...

If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing badly.

Source: What's Wrong with the...

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G K Chesterton: Is ditchwater dull?...

G K Chesterton: Is ditchwater dull?...

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet...

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Mark Twain: My parents were...

Mark Twain: My parents were...

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Mark Twain: Some men worship...

Mark Twain: Some men worship...

Some men worship rank, some men worship heroes, some men worship power, some men worship God, and over these ideals...

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Mark Twain: There ain't no...

Mark Twain: There ain't no...

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

Source: Tom...

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Mark Twain: There are many...

Mark Twain: There are many...

There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other...

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Mark Twain: We should be...

Mark Twain: We should be...

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the...

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Mark Twain: Twenty years from...

Mark Twain: Twenty years from...

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So...

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Mark Twain: We never become...

Mark Twain: We never become...

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been...

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George Eliot: It's them as...

George Eliot: It's them as...

It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

Source: Mrs. Poyser,...

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G K Chesterton: They haven't got...

G K Chesterton: They haven't got...

They haven't got no noses
The fallen sons of Eve;
Even the smell of roses
Is not what they supposes;
But...

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G K Chesterton: Your next-door neighbour....

G K Chesterton: Your next-door neighbour....

Your next-door neighbour. . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a...

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G K Chesterton: If an angel...

G K Chesterton: If an angel...

If an angel out of heaven
Brings you other things to drink,
Thank him for his kind attentions,
Go and pour...

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G K Chesterton: And Noah he...

G K Chesterton: And Noah he...

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
`I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get...

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