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A J P Taylor: The greatest problem...

A J P Taylor: The greatest problem...

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

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Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Anthony Powell: Few persons who...

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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John LeCarre: A committee is...

John LeCarre: A committee is...

A committee is an animal with four back legs.

Source: Smiley, in Tinker, Tailor,...

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Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a...

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James Allen: The law of...

James Allen: The law of...

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a...

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Richard Bach: It is by...

Richard Bach: It is by...

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room...

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Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Louis Auchincloss: Perfection irritates as...

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

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Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

A good critic is the sorcerer that makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our...

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Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

Charles Dickens: A wonderful fact...

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to...

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Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

Charles Dickens: He'd make a...

He'd make a lovely corpse.

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit, Ch. 25
-- Charles Dickens,...

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Henry James, Jr: It is, I...

Henry James, Jr: It is, I...

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world,...

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Henry James, Jr: Ideas are, in...

Henry James, Jr: Ideas are, in...

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes...

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Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Samuel Smiles: Labor is still,...

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is...

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Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

Samuel Smiles: The very greatest...

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: One is never...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: One is never...

One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one had hoped for.

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John Galsworthy: Idealism increases in...

John Galsworthy: Idealism increases in...

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

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F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

F Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea...

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

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Anatole France: When a thing...

Anatole France: When a thing...

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

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Henry James, Jr: It takes a...

Henry James, Jr: It takes a...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Source: Hawthorne,...

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