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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Max Eastman: A poet in...

Max Eastman: A poet in...

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Source: In The...

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Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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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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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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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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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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Marcus Fabius Quintilian: We must form...

Marcus Fabius Quintilian: We must form...

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...

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Joel A Barker: Your successful past...

Joel A Barker: Your successful past...

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: Wherever the citizen...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: Wherever the citizen...

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: True enjoyment comes...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: True enjoyment comes...

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever...

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Wilhelm von Humboldt: The government is...

Wilhelm von Humboldt: The government is...

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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A E Housman: Perfect understanding will...

A E Housman: Perfect understanding will...

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Source: In...

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Roger W Babson: The election of...

Roger W Babson: The election of...

The election of [Herbert] Hoover . . . should result in continued prosperity for 1929.

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Felix Frankfurter: The mark of...

Felix Frankfurter: The mark of...

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring...

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Norman Schwarzkopf: It doesn't take...

Norman Schwarzkopf: It doesn't take...

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into...

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John Paul Jones: I have not...

John Paul Jones: I have not...

I have not yet begun to fight.

Source: Retort when informed his ship was sinking...

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Francois LaRochefoucauld: We hardly find...

Francois LaRochefoucauld: We hardly find...

We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.

Source: In...

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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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