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George Eliot: It is, I...

George Eliot: It is, I...

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a...

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George Eliot: Animals are such...

George Eliot: Animals are such...

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Mark Twain: Don't part with...

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to...

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Mark Twain: As a thinker...

Mark Twain: As a thinker...

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts...

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Mark Twain: A monarch, when...

Mark Twain: A monarch, when...

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between...

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Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Mark Twain: Humor is the...

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing, after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our...

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Mark Twain: Honesty is the...

Mark Twain: Honesty is the...

Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.

Source:
-- Mark Twain,...

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Mark Twain: I don't know...

Mark Twain: I don't know...

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...

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George Eliot: In the vain...

George Eliot: In the vain...

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Source: Romola, bk....

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G K Chesterton: I've searched all...

G K Chesterton: I've searched all...

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

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G K Chesterton: People in high...

G K Chesterton: People in high...

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily...

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Henry David Thoreau: One may discover...

Henry David Thoreau: One may discover...

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will...

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G K Chesterton: Poets do not...

G K Chesterton: Poets do not...

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Source: 'Orthodoxy'
-- G K...

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G K Chesterton: The disadvantage of...

G K Chesterton: The disadvantage of...

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of...

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G K Chesterton: If the barricades...

G K Chesterton: If the barricades...

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the...

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G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

G K Chesterton: Literature has always...

Literature has always been allegorical.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

G K Chesterton: Nonsense is a...

Nonsense is a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: Woman is unrivaled...

Mark Twain: Woman is unrivaled...

Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse.

Source: Woman -- an Opinion, speech, to...

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Mark Twain: [He was] a...

Mark Twain: [He was] a...

[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the...

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