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Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare...

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Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Mark Twain: Guides cannot master...

Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Source: Innocents Abroad,...

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery: It is only...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery: It is only...

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the...

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V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

V S Naipaul: Ignorant people in...

Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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V S Naipaul: To read a...

V S Naipaul: To read a...

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like...

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Mahatma Gandhi: Truth never damages...

Mahatma Gandhi: Truth never damages...

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Source: Non-Violence in Peace and War,...

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Mahatma Gandhi: It is easy...

Mahatma Gandhi: It is easy...

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the...

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Eric Butterworth: I am not...

Eric Butterworth: I am not...

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Eric Butterworth: SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense...

Eric Butterworth: SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense...

SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Plutarch: To find a...

Plutarch: To find a...

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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Plato: Poets utter great...

Plato: Poets utter great...

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: In the mountains...

Friedrich Nietzsche: In the mountains...

In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that one must have long legs. Aphorisms should be...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The most spiritual...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The most spiritual...

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Tis the good...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Tis the good...

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which...

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John Bunyan: I could also...

John Bunyan: I could also...

I could also have stepped into a style much higher than this in which I have here discoursed, and could have adorned...

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Augustus (and Julius) Hare: Half the failures...

Augustus (and Julius) Hare: Half the failures...

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

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John Mason Neale: Good King Wenceslas...

John Mason Neale: Good King Wenceslas...

Good King Wenceslas looked out,
On the Feast of Stephen;
When the snow lay round about,
Deep and crisp and...

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Martin Delany: Every people should...

Martin Delany: Every people should...

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the...

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Edward De Bono: Some people drift...

Edward De Bono: Some people drift...

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment....

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Edward De Bono: To be successful...

Edward De Bono: To be successful...

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth...

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