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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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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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Kingsley Amis: Self criticism must...

Kingsley Amis: Self criticism must...

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue,...

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Charles Dickens: You can only...

Charles Dickens: You can only...

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick...

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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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Charles Dickens: Father Time is...

Charles Dickens: Father Time is...

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly...

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Charles Dickens: What a world...

Charles Dickens: What a world...

What a world of gammon and spinnage it is, though, ain't it!

Source: (Miss Mowcher)...

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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Jane Austen: A person who...

Jane Austen: A person who...

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Source: Miss...

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Richard Bach: A professional writer...

Richard Bach: A professional writer...

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Source: A Gift of Wings,...

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Fay Weldon: You end up...

Fay Weldon: You end up...

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you...

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Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to...

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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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Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights]

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Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

Ernest Hemingway: The man who...

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

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Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices...

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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: I'm no idealist...

Harper Lee: I'm no idealist...

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Woe to that...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Woe to that...

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with...

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George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

George Orwell: Doublethink means the...

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of...

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