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Mark Twain: Most people are...

Mark Twain: Most people are...

Most people are bothered by scripture they don't understand, but what bothers me are those I do...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: Commonplace minds usually...

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

F Scott Fitzgerald: An idea ran...

An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid...

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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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Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with...

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Colette: It is wise...

Colette: It is wise...

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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Ishmael Reed: We learn about...

Ishmael Reed: We learn about...

We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

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Louis L'Amour: Victory is not...

Louis L'Amour: Victory is not...

Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little...

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Samuel Smiles: Practical wisdom is...

Samuel Smiles: Practical wisdom is...

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they...

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Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made...

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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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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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Mario Puzo: A lawyer with...

Mario Puzo: A lawyer with...

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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Emily Bronte: I am now...

Emily Bronte: I am now...

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature transmits incontrovertible...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature transmits incontrovertible...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature...

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Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

Nelson Algren: The hard necessity...

The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Conquer but don't...

Conquer but don't triumph.

Source: Aph, 1905.
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach,...

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The law does...

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: The law does...

The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is...

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