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Charles Dickens: Which fiddle-strings is...

Charles Dickens: Which fiddle-strings is...

Which fiddle-strings is weakness to expredge my nerves this night!

Source: (Mrs...

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Robert Nathan: There is no...

Robert Nathan: There is no...

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Source: So Love...

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Milan Kundera: High culture is...

Milan Kundera: High culture is...

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going...

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Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Milan Kundera: Without the meditative...

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, ahistorical accidents, soon...

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Anatole France: An education isn't...

Anatole France: An education isn't...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Novels are longer than life.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and Writers,...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of...

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Joseph Heller: Some men are...

Joseph Heller: Some men are...

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon...

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G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

G K Chesterton: The fatal metaphor...

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth,...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!

Source:...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the...

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Patrick Buchanan: The food that...

Patrick Buchanan: The food that...

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Eloquence may set...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr: Eloquence may set...

Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Source: Gitlow vs. New York, 1924.
-- Oliver...

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William Jennings Bryan: Destiny is not...

William Jennings Bryan: Destiny is not...

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to he waited for; it is a thing to be...

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Claude Brown: Man, you not...

Claude Brown: Man, you not...

Man, you not givin' us another chance. You givin' us the same chance we had before.

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Charles Montesquieu: Success generally depends...

Charles Montesquieu: Success generally depends...

Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Source: In...

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Van Wyck Brooks: Genius and virtue...

Van Wyck Brooks: Genius and virtue...

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

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Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Konrad Lorenz: Barking dogs may...

Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

Source: In...

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James A Froude: You cannot dream...

James A Froude: You cannot dream...

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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A J P Taylor: He was what...

A J P Taylor: He was what...

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those...

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