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Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights]

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Men's minds are...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: Men's minds are...

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

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Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Francois Mauriac: Every novel worthy...

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has...

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James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

James Fenimore Cooper: Principles . ....

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

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George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of...

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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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Kingsley Amis: It was no...

Kingsley Amis: It was no...

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.

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Dr Seuss: I start drawing,...

Dr Seuss: I start drawing,...

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try...

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Frank Norris: The People have...

Frank Norris: The People have...

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of...

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Marcel Proust: If a little...

Marcel Proust: If a little...

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: My dreams were...

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed -- my dearest pleasure...

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Adolf Hitler: All propaganda has...

Adolf Hitler: All propaganda has...

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those...

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Hermann Goering: Our movement took...

Hermann Goering: Our movement took...

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Too much sensibility...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Too much sensibility...

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

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Winston Churchill: The only guide...

Winston Churchill: The only guide...

The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his...

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George V: I venture to...

George V: I venture to...

I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the...

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George V: I have many...

George V: I have many...

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to...

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Catherine the Great: A great wind...

Catherine the Great: A great wind...

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

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