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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

G K Chesterton: As enunciated today,...

As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the...

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Robert Penn Warren: I think the...

Robert Penn Warren: I think the...

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or...

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T E Lawrence: I'm re-reading it...

T E Lawrence: I'm re-reading it...

I'm re-reading it with a slow deliberate carelessness.

Source: Letter to Edward...

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Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of...

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Desiderius Erasmus: Read first the...

Desiderius Erasmus: Read first the...

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you...

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Thurgood Marshall: We can always...

Thurgood Marshall: We can always...

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're...

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Potter Stewart: Swift justice demands...

Potter Stewart: Swift justice demands...

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

Source: In Time, 20 Oct 1958.
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Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Source: (c. 1494-1553) French...

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Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

Annie Dillard: We wake, if...

We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

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Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

Ralph Ellison: America is woven...

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Source: Quoted in:...

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Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Agatha Christie: Most successes are...

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by...

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Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Source: The Guns of August,...

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Titus Livy: It takes a...

Titus Livy: It takes a...

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I don't believe...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I don't believe...

I don't believe a committee can write a book . . . . It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can...

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William C Nell: Any man among...

William C Nell: Any man among...

Any man among us, voting for their respective candidates, virtually recognizes the righteousness of their principles,...

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Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

Henry Brooks Adams: It is always...

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Source: Comment on Robert...

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Nathan Huggins: . . ....

Nathan Huggins: . . ....

. . . touching at last, the one who through superhuman power and character had pulled together the people in the birth...

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Francois Rabelais: I am going...

Francois Rabelais: I am going...

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

Source:...

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