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Thomas C Haliburton: A college education...

Thomas C Haliburton: A college education...

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Source: In The...

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John Selden: Humility is a...

John Selden: Humility is a...

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good...

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Ralph Nader: I start with...

Ralph Nader: I start with...

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more...

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Walter F Mondale: I hope we...

Walter F Mondale: I hope we...

I hope we don't lose in America this demand that those of us who want this office . . . must be prepared not to handle...

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Etty Hillesum: We are always...

Etty Hillesum: We are always...

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: So long has...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: So long has...

So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own...

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Cornelius Nepos: So that he...

Cornelius Nepos: So that he...

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

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John Dalberg Acton: To be able...

John Dalberg Acton: To be able...

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

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Henry Brooks Adams: As for America,...

Henry Brooks Adams: As for America,...

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable,...

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C Northcote Parkinson: It is better...

C Northcote Parkinson: It is better...

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Source: Guardian (London, 29 June...

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J P Donleavy: When I die...

J P Donleavy: When I die...

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in...

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Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough,...

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Annie Dillard: I noticed this...

Annie Dillard: I noticed this...

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary...

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Jessamyn West: If you want...

Jessamyn West: If you want...

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Source: In The...

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Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Source: Idle Thoughts of...

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Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

Jerome K Jerome: There is no...

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Source: Idle Thoughts...

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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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Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Source: Quoted in: Gods, in Adam, no. 299...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is stupidity...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is stupidity...

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon...

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