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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.

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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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Charles Dickens: Subdue your appetites,...

Charles Dickens: Subdue your appetites,...

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Source: Mr....

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Charles Dickens: Take example by...

Charles Dickens: Take example by...

Take example by your father, my boy, and be wery careful o' vidders all your life, specially if they've kept a public...

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Charles Dickens: Anythin' for a...

Charles Dickens: Anythin' for a...

Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said wen he took the sitivation at the lighthouse.

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Charles Dickens: Grief never mended...

Charles Dickens: Grief never mended...

Grief never mended no broken bones, and as good people's wery scarce, what I says is, make the most on...

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Peter De Vries: I write when...

Peter De Vries: I write when...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every...

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James Thurber: Early to rise...

James Thurber: Early to rise...

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

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Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Mark Twain: Wit is the...

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their marriage were not perceived to have any...

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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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Evelyn Waugh: That's the public-school...

Evelyn Waugh: That's the public-school...

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you...

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George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Source: 'Felix...

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George Eliot: Our virtues are...

George Eliot: Our virtues are...

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound...

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George Eliot: Life is too...

George Eliot: Life is too...

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...

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George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Source: The Mill on...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Forget the outside world. Life has different laws in here. This is Campland, an invisible country. It's not in the...

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