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George Eliot: Each thought is...

George Eliot: Each thought is...

Each thought is a nail that is driven
In structures that cannot decay;
And the mansion at last will be...

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George Eliot: The important work...

George Eliot: The important work...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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George Eliot: We must find...

George Eliot: We must find...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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Mark Twain: The older we...

Mark Twain: The older we...

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's...

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Mark Twain: The right word...

Mark Twain: The right word...

The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as rightly timed pause.

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Mark Twain: The way it...

Mark Twain: The way it...

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of...

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Mark Twain: There it is:...

Mark Twain: There it is:...

There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on!...

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Mark Twain: Virtue has never...

Mark Twain: Virtue has never...

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Charles Dickens: I am a...

Charles Dickens: I am a...

I am a lone lorn creetur,' were Mrs. Gummidge's words . . . 'and everythink goes contrairy with...

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Mark Twain: There is nothing...

Mark Twain: There is nothing...

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they...

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Mark Twain: War talk by...

Mark Twain: War talk by...

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon...

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Mark Twain: As a rule...

Mark Twain: As a rule...

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea...

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Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses...

Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses...

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.

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Mark Twain: Write without pay...

Mark Twain: Write without pay...

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were...

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Mark Twain: A good memory...

Mark Twain: A good memory...

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to...

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Mark Twain: All say, `How...

Mark Twain: All say, `How...

All say, `How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to...

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Mark Twain: God puts something...

Mark Twain: God puts something...

God puts something good and something lovable in every man His hands create.

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Mark Twain: How superbly brave...

Mark Twain: How superbly brave...

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger & death; & how abject in the...

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Mark Twain: He had had...

Mark Twain: He had had...

He had had much experience of physicians, and said, the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,...

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