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Austin O'Malley: Sermons are like...

Austin O'Malley: Sermons are like...

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

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Austin O'Malley: Reason clears and...

Austin O'Malley: Reason clears and...

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: I believe that...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: I believe that...

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word,...

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Karl A Menninger: Fears are educated...

Karl A Menninger: Fears are educated...

Fears are educated into us and can, if we wish, be educated out.

Source: The Human...

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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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William Penn: Knowledge is the...

William Penn: Knowledge is the...

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man.

Source: In The...

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James Bryce: No wonder that,...

James Bryce: No wonder that,...

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They...

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James Baker: You don't need...

James Baker: You don't need...

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many...

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Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer...

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Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

Francoise Sagan: There are moments...

There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a...

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Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

Francoise Sagan: To jealousy, nothing...

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Source: La Chamade,...

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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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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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...

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Beatrix Potter: I am worn...

Beatrix Potter: I am worn...

I am worn to a raveling.

Source: The Tailor of Gloucester, 1901.
-- Beatrix...

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Robertson Davies: The most original...

Robertson Davies: The most original...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult...

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Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

Marguerite Duras: I see journalists...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is...

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Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off...

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