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Daniel Moynihan: It has proved...

Daniel Moynihan: It has proved...

It has proved politically wiser to set goals than to start programs.

Source: The...

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Stephen Potter: A good general...

Stephen Potter: A good general...

A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy<br>Abominated...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated...

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered...

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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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Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Source: AQuestion...

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Boris Pasternak: As for the...

Boris Pasternak: As for the...

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to...

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Kingsley Amis: More will mean...

Kingsley Amis: More will mean...

More will mean worse.

Source: Of the expansion of higher education. Article in...

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Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

Sir Walter Scott: To be always...

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off...

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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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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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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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Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a...

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