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W C Fields: Start every day...

W C Fields: Start every day...

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Source: In Webster's...

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Harriet Monroe: The people must...

Harriet Monroe: The people must...

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have...

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Miguel de Cervantes: Jests that give...

Miguel de Cervantes: Jests that give...

Jests that give pains are no jests.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down,...

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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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Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Vita Sackville-West: Nothing shows up...

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of...

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Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious...

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Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Colley Cibber: Stolen sweets are...

Stolen sweets are best.

Source: The Rival Fools, I.
-- Colley Cibber, (Nov 6...

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George Gordon Byron: I am so...

George Gordon Byron: I am so...

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there...

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Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Francesco Petrarch: Who overrefines his...

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Source: In Shorter Bartlett's...

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Allen Ginsberg: Poetry is not...

Allen Ginsberg: Poetry is not...

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think,...

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Martin H Fischer: Half the modern...

Martin H Fischer: Half the modern...

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat...

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Alfred Korzybski: If words are...

Alfred Korzybski: If words are...

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the...

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Alfred Korzybski: If the structure...

Alfred Korzybski: If the structure...

If the structure is not similar, then the traveller or speaker is led astray, which, in serious human life-problems,...

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Benjamin Banneker: Evil communication corrupts...

Benjamin Banneker: Evil communication corrupts...

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad...

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Charles A Lindbergh: Life [is] a...

Charles A Lindbergh: Life [is] a...

Life [is] a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the...

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Orlando A Battista: One of the...

Orlando A Battista: One of the...

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an...

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George Washington Carver: More and more...

George Washington Carver: More and more...

More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and...

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George Washington Carver: Not only have...

George Washington Carver: Not only have...

Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,...

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Hans Selye: Every stress leaves...

Hans Selye: Every stress leaves...

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming...

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