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Anatole France: An education isn't...

Anatole France: An education isn't...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate...

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Colette: It is wise...

Colette: It is wise...

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Max Eastman: People who demand...

Max Eastman: People who demand...

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status...

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Alvin Toffler: You can use...

Alvin Toffler: You can use...

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and...

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Robert Fulghum: Share everything. Don't...

Robert Fulghum: Share everything. Don't...

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found...

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Beatrix Potter: All outward forms...

Beatrix Potter: All outward forms...

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great...

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Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a...

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Robertson Davies: If I had...

Robertson Davies: If I had...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only...

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R S Surtees: The only infallible...

R S Surtees: The only infallible...

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is...

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Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare...

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Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Robert Nathan: Beauty is ever...

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves...

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Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Robert Penn Warren: Poets, we know,...

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about...

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William Golding: Novelists do not...

William Golding: Novelists do not...

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Source: Aphorisms, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Nelson Algren: The Impossible Generalized...

Nelson Algren: The Impossible Generalized...

The Impossible Generalized Man is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy...

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Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about...

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Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is...

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Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: We promise according...

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Source: In...

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