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Sojourner Truth: I am not...

Sojourner Truth: I am not...

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Source: c. 1883, in...

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Some people use...

Some people use...

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is nothing...

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

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Rainer M Rilke: No one in...

Rainer M Rilke: No one in...

No one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every...

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Henry Brooks Adams: Chaos often breeds...

Henry Brooks Adams: Chaos often breeds...

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Source: The Education of Henry...

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Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Source: Of...

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Jules Renard: Writing is the...

Jules Renard: Writing is the...

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

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Euripides: Cleverness is not...

Euripides: Cleverness is not...

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,...

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Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Rainer M Rilke: Fame is the...

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Source: In...

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George Bancroft: The prejudices of...

George Bancroft: The prejudices of...

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly...

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Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have...

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James Thurber: Writers of comedy...

James Thurber: Writers of comedy...

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them,...

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Osbert Sitwell: The artist, like...

Osbert Sitwell: The artist, like...

The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over...

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Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be...

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Charles H Spurgeon: It is said...

Charles H Spurgeon: It is said...

It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be...

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Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

. . . the reward of springing from the consciousness of right, of endeavoring to benefit unborn...

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I have learned...

I have learned...

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of...

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So many people...

So many people...

So many people think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, the remedy is worse than the...

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Every abridgement of...

Every abridgement of...

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Source: Essays, bk. 3, ch. 8,...

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It is only...

It is only...

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little...

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