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Robert Stone: One is improvising...

Robert Stone: One is improvising...

One is improvising when one writes, and you pick up in the same way a musician starts to improvise and detect the...

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Charles Buxton: The first duty...

Charles Buxton: The first duty...

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good...

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George Farquhar: When the blind...

George Farquhar: When the blind...

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into --matrimony.

Source:...

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The only thing...

The only thing...

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very...

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George Farquhar: We are the...

George Farquhar: We are the...

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of...

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Augustine Birrell: An ordinary man...

Augustine Birrell: An ordinary man...

An ordinary man can. . . surround himself with two thousand books. . . and thenceforward have at least one place in...

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Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

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It is very...

It is very...

It is very nearly impossible. . . to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent...

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Scott Alexander: The best way...

Scott Alexander: The best way...

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

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James Baker: Sometimes an active...

James Baker: Sometimes an active...

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time -- or...

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Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Charles Buxton: Experience shows that...

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body...

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Tom Landry: When you want...

Tom Landry: When you want...

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

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Never fail to...

Never fail to...

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

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One can only...

One can only...

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Good music is...

Good music is...

Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty. Magical music never...

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Augustine Birrell: Libraries are not...

Augustine Birrell: Libraries are not...

Libraries are not made; they grow.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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J B S Haldane: Shelley and Keats...

J B S Haldane: Shelley and Keats...

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical...

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John Buchan: The robe of...

John Buchan: The robe of...

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...

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Milan Kundera: Solitude: a sweet...

Milan Kundera: Solitude: a sweet...

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Source: Immortality, pt. 1, ch. 6 (1991).
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