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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

Sarah Orne Jewett: In the life...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or...

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Anthony Trollope: And above all...

Anthony Trollope: And above all...

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is...

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Ariel Durant: It is good...

Ariel Durant: It is good...

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Ralph Ellison: There must be...

Ralph Ellison: There must be...

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the...

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Jean Toomer: We learn the...

Jean Toomer: We learn the...

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Edward Gibbon: The author himself...

Edward Gibbon: The author himself...

The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Henry Brooks Adams: Power is poison....

Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

Source: The...

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Nathan Huggins: Who one was,...

Nathan Huggins: Who one was,...

Who one was, where one came from, what one was expected to be, the height of courage and character that were to be...

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Jean Toomer: We start with...

Jean Toomer: We start with...

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

Source: Definitions and...

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Charles Kingsley: The world goes...

Charles Kingsley: The world goes...

The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and...

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Joseph Heller: When I grow...

Joseph Heller: When I grow...

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Source: Something Happened.
-- Joseph...

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John LeCarre: A desk is...

John LeCarre: A desk is...

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

Source: In Quotable...

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Milan Kundera: Happiness is the...

Milan Kundera: Happiness is the...

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

Robert Penn Warren: The urge to...

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch...

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Whoe'er amidst the...

Whoe'er amidst the...

Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue
Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble
Of...

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But Lord! to...

But Lord! to...

But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks...

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For the blues...

For the blues...

For the blues singer, the world is his text . . . Like any artist, the blues singer has the task of bringing order out...

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Inaction, save as...

Inaction, save as...

Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy...

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