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George Washington: Lenience will operate...

George Washington: Lenience will operate...

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of...

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Abraham Lincoln: If you would...

Abraham Lincoln: If you would...

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey...

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Mark Twain: When you ascend...

Mark Twain: When you ascend...

When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

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Mark Twain: You try to...

Mark Twain: You try to...

You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell...

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Mark Twain: Whoever has lived...

Mark Twain: Whoever has lived...

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first...

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G K Chesterton: Your next-door neighbour....

G K Chesterton: Your next-door neighbour....

Your next-door neighbour. . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Elizabeth Bowen: Art is the...

Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Source:...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I don't say...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I don't say...

I don't say 'tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above...

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Honore de Balzac: All human power...

Honore de Balzac: All human power...

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Honore de Balzac: Nature makes only...

Honore de Balzac: Nature makes only...

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

Source: In The...

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Honore de Balzac: I am laughing...

Honore de Balzac: I am laughing...

I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never...

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Mark Twain: It is a...

Mark Twain: It is a...

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're...

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Mark Twain: Morals are an...

Mark Twain: Morals are an...

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with...

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Mark Twain: They make a...

Mark Twain: They make a...

They make a mouth at you and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't-a-going to be no...

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Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Pearl Buck: Inside myself is...

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where you renew your springs that never dry...

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Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

Margot Asquith: The spirit of...

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

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Henry David Thoreau: Most men would...

Henry David Thoreau: Most men would...

Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing...

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G K Chesterton: Silence is the...

G K Chesterton: Silence is the...

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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

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