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Miyamoto Musashi: Study strategy over...

Miyamoto Musashi: Study strategy over...

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday;...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

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Robertson Davies: A truly great...

Robertson Davies: A truly great...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Elizabeth Bowen: Fate is not...

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Source: The House in Paris, 1936
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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Source: Quoted...

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Jessamyn West: If you want...

Jessamyn West: If you want...

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Source: In The...

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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Jerome K Jerome: Angels may be...

Jerome K Jerome: Angels may be...

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Eternity -- waste...

Eternity -- waste of time.

Source: Quoted in: Adam, Gods, no. 299 (London,...

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Dr Seuss: From there to...

Dr Seuss: From there to...

From there to here,
and here to there,
funny things are everywhere.


Source:...

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Emile Zola: I am little...

Emile Zola: I am little...

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life,...

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Emile Zola: Art is a...

Emile Zola: Art is a...

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with...

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Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

Natalia Ginzburg: As soon as...

As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality,...

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Homer: It is always...

Homer: It is always...

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

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Charles Buxton: You will never...

Charles Buxton: You will never...

You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

Source:...

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Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

Samuel Smiles: We often discover...

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a...

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Anatole France: The average man...

Anatole France: The average man...

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last...

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Anatole France: It is by...

Anatole France: It is by...

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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John Lubbock: If you have...

John Lubbock: If you have...

If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very...

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