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Mark Twain: Intellectual work is...

Mark Twain: Intellectual work is...

Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest...

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Mark Twain: It is a...

Mark Twain: It is a...

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're...

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Mark Twain: It is curious...

Mark Twain: It is curious...

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so...

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Mark Twain: Most people are...

Mark Twain: Most people are...

Most people are bothered by scripture they don't understand, but what bothers me are those I do...

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Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: No real gentleman...

Mark Twain: No real gentleman...

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: Public opinion is...

Mark Twain: Public opinion is...

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of...

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Mark Twain: The cross of...

Mark Twain: The cross of...

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that...

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Mark Twain: Satan hasn't a...

Mark Twain: Satan hasn't a...

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Switzerland is simply...

Mark Twain: Switzerland is simply...

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over...

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E M Forster: Personal relations are...

E M Forster: Personal relations are...

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and...

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Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Graham Henry Greene: Innocence is like...

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no...

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George Eliot: Tis God gives...

George Eliot: Tis God gives...

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without...

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George Eliot: Excellence encourages one...

George Eliot: Excellence encourages one...

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the...

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George Eliot: There is much...

George Eliot: There is much...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...

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George Eliot: Only those who...

George Eliot: Only those who...

Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene...

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George Eliot: I at least...

George Eliot: I at least...

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...

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Salman Rushdie: I used to...

Salman Rushdie: I used to...

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is...

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Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

Salman Rushdie: If Woody Allen...

If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Source: On the anger and death...

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