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Life is one...

Life is one...

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Source: Notebooks.
-- Samuel Butler...

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The flower of...

The flower of...

The flower of kindness will grow.
Maybe not now, but it will some day.
And in kind that kindness will...

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What's virtue in...

What's virtue in...

What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.

Source: Both Sides.
-- Gail...

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Shortly after the...

Shortly after the...

Shortly after the turn of the century, America marshalled her resources, contracted painfully, and gave birth to the...

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Sartor Resartus is...

Sartor Resartus is...

Sartor Resartus is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

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Oscar Wilde: The English public,...

Oscar Wilde: The English public,...

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is...

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William Shakespeare: How use doth...

William Shakespeare: How use doth...

How use doth breed a habit in a man!

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, V. iv....

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Wendy Wasserstein: No matter how...

Wendy Wasserstein: No matter how...

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's...

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Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Emma Lazarus: Jews are the...

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

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Jules Renard: A cold in...

Jules Renard: A cold in...

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Jules Renard: Talent is a...

Jules Renard: Talent is a...

Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page: it writes three hundred.

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The child must...

The child must...

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end...

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If the Almighty...

If the Almighty...

If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that...

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Music - The...

Music - The...

Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind...

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To see itself...

To see itself...

To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though...

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Cold calculation, random...

Cold calculation, random...

Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that...

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Only the pure...

Only the pure...

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Try a thing...

Try a thing...

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a...

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I don't go...

I don't go...

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

Source: On infrequency with...

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The fact is...

The fact is...

The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today...

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