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Charles Dickens: The wictim o'...

Charles Dickens: The wictim o'...

The wictim o' connubiality, as Blue Beard's domestic chaplain said, with a tear of pity, ven he buried...

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Charles Dickens: Annual income twenty...

Charles Dickens: Annual income twenty...

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds,...

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Mark Twain: We are always...

Mark Twain: We are always...

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon...

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Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Marguerite Duras: Nowhere is one...

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris. . . and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater...

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Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved...

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Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Marguerite Duras: Paradoxically, the freedom...

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say,...

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Milan Kundera: A gesture cannot...

Milan Kundera: A gesture cannot...

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of...

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Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

Margaret Atwood: We thought we...

We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

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Charles Dickens: Buy an annuity...

Charles Dickens: Buy an annuity...

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the...

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Charles Dickens: Known by the...

Charles Dickens: Known by the...

Known by the sobriquet of 'The artful Dodger.'

Source: Oliver Twist, Ch. 8
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Charles Dickens: There is a...

Charles Dickens: There is a...

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

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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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P G Wodehouse: Golf, like measles,...

P G Wodehouse: Golf, like measles,...

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

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

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James Thurber: Laughter need not...

James Thurber: Laughter need not...

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

Source: On...

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G K Chesterton: Democracy means government...

G K Chesterton: Democracy means government...

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly...

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G K Chesterton: Most Americans are...

G K Chesterton: Most Americans are...

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent...

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G K Chesterton: Individually, men may...

G K Chesterton: Individually, men may...

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping and scheming. But humanity as a...

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G K Chesterton: Once I planned...

G K Chesterton: Once I planned...

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and...

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G K Chesterton: Art consists of...

G K Chesterton: Art consists of...

Art consists of limitation. . . . The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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