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Jacques Barzun: The intellectuals' chief...

Jacques Barzun: The intellectuals' chief...

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Source: The...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: Our ideals are...

Amos Bronson Alcott: Our ideals are...

Our ideals are our better selves.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Dale Carnegie: I deal with...

Dale Carnegie: I deal with...

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be...

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Lewis Carroll: I'm very brave...

Lewis Carroll: I'm very brave...

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a...

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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: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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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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Daniel Defoe: The best of...

Daniel Defoe: The best of...

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:
The good die early, and the bad die late.


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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Ralph Ellison: Good fiction is...

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

Orison Swett Marden: If we put...

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive...

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William Jennings Bryan: If we have...

William Jennings Bryan: If we have...

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

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Etty Hillesum: Become simple and...

Etty Hillesum: Become simple and...

Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women...

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J B S Haldane: I have come...

J B S Haldane: I have come...

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions....

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George Borrow: It has been...

George Borrow: It has been...

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt...

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