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R S Surtees: More people are...

R S Surtees: More people are...

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Source: In...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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Elias Canetti: One should use...

Elias Canetti: One should use...

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Source: The Secret Heart of the...

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Henry James, Jr: The power to...

Henry James, Jr: The power to...

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

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A E Housman: That is the...

A E Housman: That is the...

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come...

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Warren E Burger: For better or...

Warren E Burger: For better or...

For better or worse, editing is what editors are for; and editing is selection and choice of material. That editors...

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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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Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Elizabeth Bowen: Some people are...

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

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Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Francois Rabelais: Science without conscience...

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

Source: (c. 1494-1553) French...

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Annie Dillard: The secret of...

Annie Dillard: The secret of...

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted,...

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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Jessamyn West: Talent is helpful...

Jessamyn West: Talent is helpful...

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Source: In Words...

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Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Jerome K Jerome: Among all nations...

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and listen to it, for it...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the...

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Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Alvin Toffler: Our technological powers...

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also...

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Honore de Balzac: If those who...

Honore de Balzac: If those who...

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring,...

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Charles Buxton: In life, as...

Charles Buxton: In life, as...

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Richard Hughes: Middle age snuffs...

Middle age snuffs our more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.

Source: The...

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