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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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Mark Twain: Let us be...

Mark Twain: Let us be...

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

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Mark Twain: Any so-called material...

Mark Twain: Any so-called material...

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content...

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Mark Twain: A banker is...

Mark Twain: A banker is...

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to...

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Mark Twain: A powerful agent...

Mark Twain: A powerful agent...

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words . . . the resulting...

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Mark Twain: Eternal rest sounds...

Mark Twain: Eternal rest sounds...

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your...

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Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Few sinners have been saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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Mark Twain: The holy passion...

Mark Twain: The holy passion...

The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a...

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Charles Dickens: A day wasted...

Charles Dickens: A day wasted...

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Charles Dickens: Kent, sir --...

Charles Dickens: Kent, sir --...

Kent, sir -- everybody knows Kent -- apples, cherries, hops, and women.

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George Eliot: In spite of...

George Eliot: In spite of...

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and...

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Winston Churchill: This is not...

Winston Churchill: This is not...

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the...

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G K Chesterton: When you have...

G K Chesterton: When you have...

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us...

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G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all...

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G K Chesterton: It is at...

G K Chesterton: It is at...

It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something...

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G K Chesterton: The traveler sees...

G K Chesterton: The traveler sees...

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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G K Chesterton: Am in Birmingham....

G K Chesterton: Am in Birmingham....

Am in Birmingham. Where ought I to be?

Source: Telegram to his wife during a...

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G K Chesterton: With any recovery...

G K Chesterton: With any recovery...

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

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G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. ...

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G K Chesterton: They have given...

G K Chesterton: They have given...

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords,
Lords without anger and honour, who dare not carry their...

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