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Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

Artemus Ward: I prefer temperance...

I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of...

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Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Marguerite Duras: Men like women...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

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John Mortimer: Farce is tragedy...

John Mortimer: Farce is tragedy...

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

Source: Times ...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: If you have...

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Source: Aph, 1905.
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Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to . . . . Do it,...

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Mark Twain: Nothing so needs...

Mark Twain: Nothing so needs...

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Source:
-- Mark Twain,...

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Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories...

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V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer...

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Emily Bronte: A person who...

Emily Bronte: A person who...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half...

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Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Judith Krantz: Billy thought privately...

Billy thought privately that the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were. Sometimes she...

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Michael Crichton: Absence of proof...

Michael Crichton: Absence of proof...

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Francoise Sagan: One can never...

Francoise Sagan: One can never...

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Judith Viorst: Strength is the...

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands- and then eat just one of the...

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Benjamin Harrison: I knew that...

Benjamin Harrison: I knew that...

I knew that my staying up would not change the [election] result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day...

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John Buchan: We can pay...

John Buchan: We can pay...

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Source: On NBC TV, 3 Apr 1985.
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Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Millicent Fenwick: Women are on...

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

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Ralph Bunche: We must fight...

Ralph Bunche: We must fight...

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and...

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Claudius: Acquaintance lessens fame....

Claudius: Acquaintance lessens fame....

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Catherine the Great: I am one...

Catherine the Great: I am one...

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Source: Letter, 20 Jan...

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