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Abraham Lincoln: A woman is...

Abraham Lincoln: A woman is...

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: To have in...

George Eliot: To have in...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular...

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George Eliot: For what we...

George Eliot: For what we...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a willing movement of...

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Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Charles Dickens: Here's the rule...

Here's the rule for bargains: Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business...

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Mark Twain: There are people...

Mark Twain: There are people...

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happinesses to the...

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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: Whenever you find...

Mark Twain: Whenever you find...

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken...

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Mark Twain: There was things...

Mark Twain: There was things...

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Source: The...

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Mark Twain: Wit and Humor...

Mark Twain: Wit and Humor...

Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but...

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Mark Twain: An experienced, industrious,...

Mark Twain: An experienced, industrious,...

An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.

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Mark Twain: History is strewn...

Mark Twain: History is strewn...

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is...

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Mark Twain: If He Tom...

Mark Twain: If He Tom...

If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended...

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Mark Twain: In Boston they...

Mark Twain: In Boston they...

In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his...

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Mark Twain: In the South,...

Mark Twain: In the South,...

In the South, the war is what A.D. is elsewhere: they date from it.

Source: Life on...

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Mark Twain: Kings is mostly...

Mark Twain: Kings is mostly...

Kings is mostly rapscallions.

Source:
-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US...

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Mark Twain: Surgeons and anatomists...

Mark Twain: Surgeons and anatomists...

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...

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George Eliot: Might, could, would...

George Eliot: Might, could, would...

Might, could, would -- they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Source: Mary Garth, in...

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Winston Churchill: I can think...

Winston Churchill: I can think...

I can think of no better step to signalize the inauguration of the National Health service than that a person who so...

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