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Henry David Thoreau: Superfluous wealth can...

Henry David Thoreau: Superfluous wealth can...

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the...

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Henry David Thoreau: What a man...

Henry David Thoreau: What a man...

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines or rather indicates his fate.

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Thomas Carlyle: Ridicule is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Ridicule is the...

Ridicule is the language of the devil.

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-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

Guillaume Apollinaire: To insist on...

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

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Charles Dickens: As she frequently...

Charles Dickens: As she frequently...

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years...

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Jane Austen: It was not...

Jane Austen: It was not...

It was not very wonderful that Catherine . . . should prefer cricket, base ball . . . to...

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Richard Bach: Argue your limitations...

Richard Bach: Argue your limitations...

Argue your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

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-- Richard...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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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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Evelyn Waugh: There aren't many...

Evelyn Waugh: There aren't many...

There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is.

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Joseph Heller: I want to...

Joseph Heller: I want to...

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night...

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Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Joseph Heller: Frankly, I'd like...

Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private...

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George Eliot: When death, the...

George Eliot: When death, the...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our...

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Peter De Vries: I love being...

Peter De Vries: I love being...

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

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James Thurber: Early to rise...

James Thurber: Early to rise...

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

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James Thurber: Speed is scarcely...

James Thurber: Speed is scarcely...

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of...

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V S Naipaul: The world is...

V S Naipaul: The world is...

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in...

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Mark Twain: What, then, is...

Mark Twain: What, then, is...

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. ...

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Harper Lee: Until I feared...

Harper Lee: Until I feared...

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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Anthony Powell: He fell in...

Anthony Powell: He fell in...

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove...

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