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Jane Austen: In every power,...

Jane Austen: In every power,...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...

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Richard Bach: [T]here is such...

Richard Bach: [T]here is such...

[T]here is such a thing as perfection . . . and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth ....

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Richard Bach: An idea is...

Richard Bach: An idea is...

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for...

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Guillaume Apollinaire: I love men,...

Guillaume Apollinaire: I love men,...

I love men, not for what unites them, but for divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their...

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James Thurber: My drawings have...

James Thurber: My drawings have...

My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had...

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Mark Twain: The difference between...

Mark Twain: The difference between...

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter -- 'tis the difference...

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Mark Twain: Why was the...

Mark Twain: Why was the...

Why was the human race created? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit...

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Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

Frederick Douglass: A man's character...

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about...

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Joseph Heller: Some men are...

Joseph Heller: Some men are...

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon...

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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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Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

Nelson Algren: The avocation of...

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The newspaper reader...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The newspaper reader...

The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Fear is the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Fear is the...

Fear is the mother of morality.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The lonely one...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The lonely one...

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Source: In...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The Germans --...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The Germans --...

The Germans -- once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Our treasure lies...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Our treasure lies...

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A cynic can...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A cynic can...

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A good indignation...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A good indignation...

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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Thomas Hobbes: Such truth, as...

Thomas Hobbes: Such truth, as...

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

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Mahatma Gandhi: I do not...

Mahatma Gandhi: I do not...

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the...

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