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Charles V: Name me an...

Charles V: Name me an...

Name me an Emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Source: Alleged remark, 23...

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George V: My father was...

George V: My father was...

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father, and I'm damned well going to make sure that my...

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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Let it be...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: Let it be...

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as...

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Lewis Carroll: Everything's got a...

Lewis Carroll: Everything's got a...

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Source: Alice's Adventures in...

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Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Lewis Carroll: Now here, you...

Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else,...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Sarah Orne Jewett: Tact is after...

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs...

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Gertrude Stein: One does not...

Gertrude Stein: One does not...

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

Lewis Carroll: What I tell...

What I tell you three times is true.

Source: The Hunting of the Snark.
-- Lewis...

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Ralph Ellison: If the word...

Ralph Ellison: If the word...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and...

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Honore de Balzac: Laws are spider...

Honore de Balzac: Laws are spider...

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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William Hastie: Strategic planning for...

William Hastie: Strategic planning for...

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social...

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Learned Hand: It is enough...

Learned Hand: It is enough...

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the...

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William Blackstone: The public good...

William Blackstone: The public good...

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private...

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Orison Swett Marden: Begin where you...

Orison Swett Marden: Begin where you...

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be...

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Van Wyck Brooks: The man who...

Van Wyck Brooks: The man who...

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

Source: A...

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Van Wyck Brooks: Longfellow is to...

Van Wyck Brooks: Longfellow is to...

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Source: The Flowering of...

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Northrop Frye: The most technologically...

Northrop Frye: The most technologically...

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

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Alfred Victor Vigny: Fainthearted animals move...

Alfred Victor Vigny: Fainthearted animals move...

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk...

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Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Source: The Great Age of Greek...

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Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to...

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