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Edward Dahlberg: I would rather...

Edward Dahlberg: I would rather...

I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.

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Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce...

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Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Edward Dahlberg: Those who write...

Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser Iscariots than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the...

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Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of...

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Charles Dickens: Oh! I know...

Charles Dickens: Oh! I know...

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

Source: (Fanny Cleaver) Our Mutual...

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Mark Twain: The man who...

Mark Twain: The man who...

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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Mark Twain: Water, taken in...

Mark Twain: Water, taken in...

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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Vaclav Havel: If you want...

Vaclav Havel: If you want...

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

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Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a...

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Winston Churchill: For myself I...

Winston Churchill: For myself I...

For myself I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

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Winston Churchill: I said that...

Winston Churchill: I said that...

I said that the world must be made safe for at least fifty years. If it was only for fifteen to twenty years then we...

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Winston Churchill: If you simply...

Winston Churchill: If you simply...

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of...

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Winston Churchill: It may be...

Winston Churchill: It may be...

It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the...

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Winston Churchill: You [Hitler] do...

Winston Churchill: You [Hitler] do...

You [Hitler] do your worst, and we will do our best.

Source: Speech at Civil...

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Edward Koch: If you don't...

Edward Koch: If you don't...

If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor,...

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Barack Obama: I just want...

Barack Obama: I just want...

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss...

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Abraham Lincoln: When I hear...

Abraham Lincoln: When I hear...

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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Abraham Lincoln: When you have...

Abraham Lincoln: When you have...

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him...

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Abraham Lincoln: I laugh because...

Abraham Lincoln: I laugh because...

I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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James A Garfield: All free governments...

James A Garfield: All free governments...

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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