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Barbarism is needed...

Barbarism is needed...

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of...

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No office anywhere...

No office anywhere...

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the...

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I hope I...

I hope I...

I hope I have convinced you -- the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the...

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A wise man...

A wise man...

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Source: In Webster's...

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Gratitude, like love,...

Gratitude, like love,...

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Source: In The...

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The mass media...

The mass media...

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with...

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So many people...

So many people...

So many people think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, the remedy is worse than the...

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Adventure is not...

Adventure is not...

Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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When a man...

When a man...

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell...

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Life is not...

Life is not...

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Source: Notebooks.
-- Samuel Butler...

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War correspondents ....

War correspondents ....

War correspondents . . . see a great deal of the world. Our obligation is to pass it on to...

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I keep my...

I keep my...

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or...

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Just begin a...

Just begin a...

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...

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The first writers...

The first writers...

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

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Education's purpose is...

Education's purpose is...

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Source: In Forbes...

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Now [the Cinderella...

Now [the Cinderella...

Now [the Cinderella Complex] tends to hit women after college . . . . When the first thrill of freedom subsides and...

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But these were...

But these were...

But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.

Source:...

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Friendship is not...

Friendship is not...

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

Source: Lives of English Poets -...

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To know your...

To know your...

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because...

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A tiny radish...

A tiny radish...

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Source: Recalled on...

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