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Mark Twain: A man cannot...

Mark Twain: A man cannot...

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Mark Twain: I cannot see...

Mark Twain: I cannot see...

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.

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Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence that general...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: Hence that general...

Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense...

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Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Margot Asquith: Lord Birkenhead is...

Lord Birkenhead is very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Source:...

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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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Nathan Huggins: The vogue of...

Nathan Huggins: The vogue of...

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be sold to...

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Pliny the Elder: The brain is...

Pliny the Elder: The brain is...

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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William O Douglas: Common sense often...

William O Douglas: Common sense often...

Common sense often makes good law.

Source: In court ruling, 25 Mar 1957.
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Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving...

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Marita Bonner: You can, when...

Marita Bonner: You can, when...

You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet -- at your full height -- at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why ....

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Pearl Buck: When hope is...

Pearl Buck: When hope is...

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

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Max Frisch: The difference between...

Max Frisch: The difference between...

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's...

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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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Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

Van Wyck Brooks: No one is...

No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or...

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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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Guillaume Apollinaire: Without poets, without...

Guillaume Apollinaire: Without poets, without...

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: I love men,...

Guillaume Apollinaire: I love men,...

I love men, not for what unites them, but for divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: That God, which...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: That God, which...

That God, which ever lives and loves,
One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which...

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