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Victor Hugo: Common sense is...

Victor Hugo: Common sense is...

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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George Herbert: Follow not truth...

George Herbert: Follow not truth...

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Source: Jacula...

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Robert Louis Stevenson: Keep your fears...

Robert Louis Stevenson: Keep your fears...

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Source: In The...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the...

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Euripides: Among mortals second...

Euripides: Among mortals second...

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Arthur Miller: The apple cannot...

Arthur Miller: The apple cannot...

The apple cannot be stuck back on The Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek...

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Terence: The nature of...

Terence: The nature of...

The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their...

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Maxwell Anderson: There are some...

Maxwell Anderson: There are some...

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that...

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Thomas Middleton: Ground not upon...

Thomas Middleton: Ground not upon...

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Source: The Family of...

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Aristophanes: Quickly, bring me...

Aristophanes: Quickly, bring me...

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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Aristophanes: You should not...

Aristophanes: You should not...

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.

Source: 'The...

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Alexandre Dumas, fils: The chain of...

Alexandre Dumas, fils: The chain of...

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.

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Jean Racine: Crime, like virtue,...

Jean Racine: Crime, like virtue,...

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees. (Ainsi que la vertue le crime a ses degr?s.)

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Edward Albee: Sometimes a person...

Edward Albee: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance...

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Friedrich von Schiller: The great happiness...

Friedrich von Schiller: The great happiness...

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical...

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Nicolas Chamfort: The majority of...

Nicolas Chamfort: The majority of...

The majority of those who put together collections of verses or epigrams resemble those who eat cherries or oysters:...

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Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Source:...

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Louise A Bogan: I hope that...

Louise A Bogan: I hope that...

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling about.

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Miguel de Cervantes: Tis the part...

Miguel de Cervantes: Tis the part...

'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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