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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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George Eliot: I desire no...

George Eliot: I desire no...

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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George Eliot: Rome, the city...

George Eliot: Rome, the city...

Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with...

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George Eliot: Solomon's Proverbs, I...

George Eliot: Solomon's Proverbs, I...

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness...

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George Eliot: We want people...

George Eliot: We want people...

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

Source: George Eliot's Life...

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George Eliot: He was at...

George Eliot: He was at...

He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen...

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George Eliot: Great feelings will...

George Eliot: Great feelings will...

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...

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George Eliot: There is hardly...

George Eliot: There is hardly...

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...

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George Eliot: No story is...

George Eliot: No story is...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...

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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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James Thurber: Then, with that...

James Thurber: Then, with that...

Then, with that faint fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud...

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Mark Twain: Training is everything....

Mark Twain: Training is everything....

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college...

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Edward Dahlberg: Nothing in our...

Edward Dahlberg: Nothing in our...

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

Source: Alms for...

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G K Chesterton: There is a...

G K Chesterton: There is a...

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel...

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G K Chesterton: Their is a...

G K Chesterton: Their is a...

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

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G K Chesterton: He could not...

G K Chesterton: He could not...

He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.

Source: Speaking of...

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Graham Henry Greene: Cynicism is cheap...

Graham Henry Greene: Cynicism is cheap...

Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality...

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Winston Churchill: Although personally I...

Winston Churchill: Although personally I...

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of...

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