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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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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.

Source:...

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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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Northrop Frye: A reader who...

Northrop Frye: A reader who...

A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that...

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Walter Benjamin: He who observes...

Walter Benjamin: He who observes...

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no...

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Charles Kingsley: We act as...

Charles Kingsley: We act as...

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy...

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Milan Kundera: A novel that...

Milan Kundera: A novel that...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only...

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Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

Robert Penn Warren: I've been to...

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do...

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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: If you shut...

Emile Zola: If you shut...

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

Source: In The...

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Henry James, Jr: The power to...

Henry James, Jr: The power to...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the...

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