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Bill Clinton: You can put...

Bill Clinton: You can put...

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Source: Describing a...

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George W Bush: You can fool...

George W Bush: You can fool...

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate...

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Literature is the...

Literature is the...

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility,...

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If women believed...

If women believed...

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more...

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I write in...

I write in...

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving...

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We need old...

We need old...

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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I can understand...

I can understand...

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot...

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Perhaps it is...

Perhaps it is...

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

Source: A Matter...

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There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized...

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What we call...

What we call...

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always...

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One of the...

One of the...

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a...

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Character in decay...

Character in decay...

Character in decay is the theme of the great bulk of superior fiction.

Source: In...

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A Scotchman must...

A Scotchman must...

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

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Every other author...

Every other author...

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative...

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I am always...

I am always...

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of...

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Destiny has two...

Destiny has two...

Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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The words! I...

The words! I...

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

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I can't talk...

I can't talk...

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't...

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By the time...

By the time...

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying...

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. . ....

. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will...

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