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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do what you...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Do what you...

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Source: In The...

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Charles Dickens: Jobling, there are...

Charles Dickens: Jobling, there are...

Jobling, there are chords in the human mind.

Source: (Guppy) Bleak House, Ch....

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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: I can understand...

Mark Twain: I can understand...

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an...

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Mark Twain: The radical invents...

Mark Twain: The radical invents...

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Mark Twain: Fiction is obliged...

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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Mark Twain: He does not...

Mark Twain: He does not...

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel...

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Mark Twain: I think a...

Mark Twain: I think a...

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and...

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Mark Twain: Often, the less...

Mark Twain: Often, the less...

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of...

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Mark Twain: No one has...

Mark Twain: No one has...

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the...

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Mark Twain: One of life's...

Mark Twain: One of life's...

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in...

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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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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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