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Alfred Adler: It is the...

Alfred Adler: It is the...

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Source: In The...

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August Bier: If there weren't...

August Bier: If there weren't...

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier.

Source:...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: To philosophize is...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: To philosophize is...

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly...

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Life is filigree...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Life is filigree...

Life is filigree work. . . . What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that...

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Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

Ashley Montagu: It is work,...

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has...

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Jean Paul: The timid are...

Jean Paul: The timid are...

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after...

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James Thurber: When all things...

James Thurber: When all things...

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing...

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James Thurber: He knows all...

James Thurber: He knows all...

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Source: In Webster's...

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Emily Bronte: A good heart...

Emily Bronte: A good heart...

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad. . . and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than...

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Fay Weldon: The desire for...

Fay Weldon: The desire for...

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting...

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Charles Morgan: There is no...

Charles Morgan: There is no...

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved; It is God's finger on man's...

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Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

Charles Morgan: If Moses had...

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten...

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Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

Italo Calvino: The struggle of...

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the...

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Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Charles Dickens: Train up a...

Train up a fig-tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of...

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Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over...

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Henry James, Jr: It takes a...

Henry James, Jr: It takes a...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Source: Hawthorne,...

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Henry James, Jr: I hate American...

Henry James, Jr: I hate American...

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Very dangerous things, theories.

Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona...

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Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Charles Simmons: Both mind and...

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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