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Artemus Ward: Why is this...

Artemus Ward: Why is this...

Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?

Source: Artemus Ward's...

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Artemus Ward: I have already...

Artemus Ward: I have already...

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's...

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Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Margaret Atwood: Because I am...

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

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Kingsley Amis: He resolved, having...

Kingsley Amis: He resolved, having...

He resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again.

Source: On...

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Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

Kingsley Amis: It scored right...

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse, flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish...

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Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

Charles Buxton: To make pleasures...

To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.

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-- Charles Buxton, ( ...

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Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

Joseph Marie De Maistre: To know how...

To know how to wait is the great secret of success.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages...

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Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

[A]fter puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so...

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Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

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Joseph Roux: It is a...

Joseph Roux: It is a...

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Source:...

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Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual...

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Jose Ortega y Gasset: The metaphor is...

Jose Ortega y Gasset: The metaphor is...

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

Source: The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: It was modesty...

Friedrich Nietzsche: It was modesty...

It was modesty which in Greece invented the word philosopher and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: There are two...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: There are two...

There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, is it good in itself? In the...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Although modesty is...

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Do not judge,...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Do not judge,...

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Truth is no...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Truth is no...

Truth is no road to fortune.

Source: 'The Social Contract'
-- Jean Jacques...

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Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

Emile M Cioran: All that shimmers...

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness...

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of...

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Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . . not simply working from the given, but toward the...

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