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Homer: It is always...

Homer: It is always...

It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.

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Milan Kundera: The basis of...

Milan Kundera: The basis of...

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be...

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Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

Shirley Jackson: [L]et my reader...

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he...

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Charlie Chaplin: I went into...

Charlie Chaplin: I went into...

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

Amos Bronson Alcott: The true teacher...

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their...

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Colette: You do not...

Colette: You do not...

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Source: My Apprenticeships,...

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Alfred Whitney Griswold: There will be...

Alfred Whitney Griswold: There will be...

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not...

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In the march...

In the march...

In the march up the heights of fame there comes a spot close to the summit in which man reads nothing but detective...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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He was an...

He was an...

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home...

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Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

Anne Bradstreet: If what I...

If what I do prove well, it won't advance,
They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by...

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Thomas B Macaulay: The knowledge of...

Thomas B Macaulay: The knowledge of...

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

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Charles Sanders Peirce: The pragmatist knows...

Charles Sanders Peirce: The pragmatist knows...

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.

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Jinger Heath: You are in...

Jinger Heath: You are in...

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as...

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Euripides: The wavering mind...

Euripides: The wavering mind...

The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Titus Livy: We fear things...

Titus Livy: We fear things...

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Source: In Wisdom of the...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Source: The...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have...

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Thomas B Macaulay: This is the...

Thomas B Macaulay: This is the...

This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly...

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Titus Livy: Men are seldom...

Titus Livy: Men are seldom...

Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.

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