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Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Mark Twain: Hardly a man...

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his...

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Mark Twain: Honest poverty is...

Mark Twain: Honest poverty is...

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell...

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Mark Twain: It is better...

Mark Twain: It is better...

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all...

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Joseph Heller: I want to...

Joseph Heller: I want to...

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night...

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George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

George Eliot: Breed is stronger...

Breed is stronger than pasture.

Source:
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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George Eliot: I like not...

George Eliot: I like not...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the...

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George Eliot: The poverty of...

George Eliot: The poverty of...

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in...

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George Eliot: If you could...

George Eliot: If you could...

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

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George Eliot: I tell you...

George Eliot: I tell you...

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman,...

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George Eliot: Is it not...

George Eliot: Is it not...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...

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George Eliot: With memory set...

George Eliot: With memory set...

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of...

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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: Hatred is like...

George Eliot: Hatred is like...

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: When death, the...

George Eliot: When death, the...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Human beings yield...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Human beings yield...

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's...

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Charles Dickens: A man in...

Charles Dickens: A man in...

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elewated sitiwation, and not of...

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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: There's a Providence...

Charles Dickens: There's a Providence...

'There's a Providence in it all,' said Sam. `O' course there is,' replied his father with a nod of grave approval....

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Charles Dickens: An observer of...

Charles Dickens: An observer of...

'An observer of human nature, sir,' said Mr Pickwick.

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: Put it down...

Charles Dickens: Put it down...

Put it down a we, my lord, put it down a we!

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch. 34
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