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Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

Elizabeth Bowen: If you look...

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Source: The Death of...

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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Annie Dillard: I noticed this...

Annie Dillard: I noticed this...

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be...

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Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

Gertrude Stein: It is extraordinary...

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary...

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Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Max Eastman: Dogs laugh, but...

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh...

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Jerome K Jerome: I want a...

Jerome K Jerome: I want a...

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and...

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Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Source: Idle Thoughts...

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Jerome K Jerome: Some people are...

Jerome K Jerome: Some people are...

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Nothing is impossible;...

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

Natalie Clifford Barney: There are. ....

There are. . . intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has...

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John Galsworthy: A man of...

John Galsworthy: A man of...

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

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John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

John Galsworthy: The beginnings and...

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

Source: In The...

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Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

Source: The...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is quite...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is quite...

It is quite a three-pipe problem.

Source: The Red-Headed League.
-- Arthur Conan...

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Hannah Arendt: Man cannot be...

Hannah Arendt: Man cannot be...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: Coercion may prevent...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: Coercion may prevent...

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom...

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A E Housman: Look not in...

A E Housman: Look not in...

Look not in my eyes, for fear
They mirror true the sight I see,
And there you find your face too clear
And...

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Warren E Burger: Free speech carries...

Warren E Burger: Free speech carries...

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

Source: Majority opinion in 7-1...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: One must be...

Amos Bronson Alcott: One must be...

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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