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James Thurber: When all things...

James Thurber: When all things...

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing...

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Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before...

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Mark Twain: George Washington, as...

Mark Twain: George Washington, as...

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even...

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Mark Twain: It is not...

Mark Twain: It is not...

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make...

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Mark Twain: You can't depend...

Mark Twain: You can't depend...

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: Why is it...

Mark Twain: Why is it...

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person...

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Mark Twain: Of all God's...

Mark Twain: Of all God's...

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man...

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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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WASHINGTONIAN, n. A...

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A...

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good...

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Martin Luther King, Jr: A riot is...

Martin Luther King, Jr: A riot is...

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Source: On blacks in America; address at...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We must hold...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We must hold...

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We sometimes meet...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We sometimes meet...

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Weed -- a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Weed -- a...

Weed -- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Source: Fortune of the...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: What school, college,...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: What school, college,...

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Why should we...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Why should we...

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Francis Bacon: Without friends the...

Francis Bacon: Without friends the...

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth...

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Francis Bacon: Fortunes . ....

Francis Bacon: Fortunes . ....

Fortunes . . . come tumbling into some men's laps.

Source: The Advancement of...

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Francis Bacon: The poets did...

Francis Bacon: The poets did...

The poets did well to conjoin Music And Medicine in Apollo: because the office of medicine is but to tune this curious...

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Saint Augustine: What does love...

Saint Augustine: What does love...

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sorrow makes us...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sorrow makes us...

Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows...

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