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Aesop: Wealth unused might...

Aesop: Wealth unused might...

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Aesop: Please all, and...

Aesop: Please all, and...

Please all, and you will please none.

Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and...

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Kenneth Grahame: As a rule,...

Kenneth Grahame: As a rule,...

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that...

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Daniel Defoe: It is better...

Daniel Defoe: It is better...

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of...

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Aesop: Thinking to get...

Aesop: Thinking to get...

Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find -...

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A E Housman: Even when poetry...

A E Housman: Even when poetry...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . . Perfect understanding...

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Clarence Thomas: Good manners will...

Clarence Thomas: Good manners will...

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Source: In Readers'...

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Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Source: The Death of...

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Gertrude Stein: If you are...

Gertrude Stein: If you are...

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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Jerome K Jerome: I want a...

Jerome K Jerome: I want a...

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and...

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Dr Seuss: Today was good.<br>Today...

Dr Seuss: Today was good.
Today...

Today was good.
Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.


Source: In Webster's...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Excellent!' I cried....

Arthur Conan Doyle: Excellent!' I cried....

'Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he.

Source: Watson talking to Sherlock...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Our ideas must...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Our ideas must...

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Life is infinitely...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Life is infinitely...

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things...

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Elizabeth Montagu: Will an intelligent...

Elizabeth Montagu: Will an intelligent...

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law...

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Elizabeth Montagu: To judge therefore...

Elizabeth Montagu: To judge therefore...

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under...

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Orison Swett Marden: Deep within man...

Orison Swett Marden: Deep within man...

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing;...

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Ralph Nader: When strangers start...

Ralph Nader: When strangers start...

When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

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Albert Pike: To work with...

Albert Pike: To work with...

To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to...

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William Jennings Bryan: You shall not...

William Jennings Bryan: You shall not...

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of...

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