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Publilius Syrus: From the errors...

Publilius Syrus: From the errors...

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3,...

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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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Milan Kundera: The basis of...

Milan Kundera: The basis of...

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be...

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Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Sorrow is a silence in the heart.

Source: A Cedar Box.
-- Robert Nathan, (Jan 2...

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Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Source: In Words of Women...

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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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Anthony Powell: People think that...

Anthony Powell: People think that...

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs...

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Richard Bach: That's what learning...

Richard Bach: That's what learning...

That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it,...

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Richard Bach: Do you know...

Richard Bach: Do you know...

Do you know what I learned from you? I learned what is possible, and now I must hold out for what I thought we...

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Aldous Huxley: The smallest fact...

Aldous Huxley: The smallest fact...

The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Source: cited...

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Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer...

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Peter De Vries: Life is a...

Peter De Vries: Life is a...

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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James Thurber: There is, of...

James Thurber: There is, of...

There is, of course, a certain amount of drudgery in newspaper work, just as there is in teaching classes, tunneling...

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Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Artemus Ward: Let us all...

Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it...

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Mary McCarthy: It has to...

Mary McCarthy: It has to...

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of...

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Harper Lee: Real courage is...

Harper Lee: Real courage is...

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter...

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Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of...

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Ralph Ellison: Hibernation is a...

Ralph Ellison: Hibernation is a...

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Source: The Invisible...

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Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Ariel Durant: Education is the...

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Source: In Peter's Quotations, by...

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Anatole France: If fifty million...

Anatole France: If fifty million...

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Source:...

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