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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of...

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Charles Peguy: He who does...

Charles Peguy: He who does...

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas . . . Whatever the white man has...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

Friedrich Nietzsche: He who despises...

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: In...

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Taylor Caldwell: Honest men live...

Taylor Caldwell: Honest men live...

Honest men live on charity in their age; the alm houses are full of men who never stole a copper penny. Honest men are...

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Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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William McFee: People don't ever...

William McFee: People don't ever...

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against...

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Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

Anthony Trollope: A man's mind...

A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by...

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Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.

Source: The...

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Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Lewis Carroll: Twinkle, twinkle, little...

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly!
Like a teatray in the...

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Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

Robert Penn Warren: The poem ....

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing...

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Henry Miller: All growth is...

Henry Miller: All growth is...

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of...

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Louis Auchincloss: The glittering structure...

Louis Auchincloss: The glittering structure...

The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: O divine art...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: O divine art...

O divine art of sublety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can...

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Thomas C Haliburton: Nicknames stick to...

Thomas C Haliburton: Nicknames stick to...

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

Source:...

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Noam Chomsky: Colourless green ideas...

Noam Chomsky: Colourless green ideas...

Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.

Source: Used by Chomsky to demonstrate that...

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J B S Haldane: While I do...

J B S Haldane: While I do...

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that...

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Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Anthony Trollope: Life is so...

Life is so unlike theory.

Source: Phineas Finn.
-- Anthony Trollope, (Apr 24...

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Henry David Thoreau: The language of...

Henry David Thoreau: The language of...

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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