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Elizabeth Bowen: Illusions are art,...

Elizabeth Bowen: Illusions are art,...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

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Annie Dillard: I don't know...

Annie Dillard: I don't know...

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...

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Gertrude Stein: If you are...

Gertrude Stein: If you are...

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,...

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Honore de Balzac: One exits with...

Honore de Balzac: One exits with...

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

Source: In Webster's...

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Honore de Balzac: Friendships last when...

Honore de Balzac: Friendships last when...

Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.

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Richard Hughes: The trouble with...

Richard Hughes: The trouble with...

The trouble with success is that a man may be perfectly sound on the short story but not very good about the atomic...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is a...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is a...

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the...

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Barbara Tuchman: Books are the...

Barbara Tuchman: Books are the...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought...

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Sallust: It is the...

Sallust: It is the...

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like...

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus: The desire for...

Publius Cornelius Tacitus: The desire for...

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Source: In...

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A J P Taylor: The greatest problem...

A J P Taylor: The greatest problem...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

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John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

John Dalberg Acton: Writers the most...

Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit...

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Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...

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Felix Frankfurter: The mark of...

Felix Frankfurter: The mark of...

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring...

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Hugo L Black: When I was...

Hugo L Black: When I was...

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and...

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Arthur J Goldberg: Law not served...

Arthur J Goldberg: Law not served...

Law not served by power is an illusion; but power not ruled by law is a menace which our nuclear age cannot...

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Amos Bronson Alcott: The less routine...

Amos Bronson Alcott: The less routine...

The less routine the more life.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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