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Gertrude Stein: Everybody knows if...

Gertrude Stein: Everybody knows if...

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Natalia Ginzburg: Children should be...

Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: Before we can...

Maxine Hong Kingston: Before we can...

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade...

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Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

Ernest J Gaines: I have learned...

I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have by...

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Fawn M Brodie: Show me a...

Fawn M Brodie: Show me a...

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with...

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Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

Fawn M Brodie: There is, of...

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for...

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Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

Kenneth Grahame: The strongest human...

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist...

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Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Robertson Davies: Imagination is a...

Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground -- not a flying carpet to set you free from...

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Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Robertson Davies: Few people can...

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Source: Dylan Thomas...

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Elias Canetti: Every decision is...

Elias Canetti: Every decision is...

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with...

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Henry James, Jr: She had an...

Henry James, Jr: She had an...

She had an unequaled gift. . . of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

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John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

John Dalberg Acton: Be not content...

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

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Sallust: Every bad precedent...

Sallust: Every bad precedent...

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Sallust: No man underestimates...

Sallust: No man underestimates...

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

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Cornelius Nepos: So that he...

Cornelius Nepos: So that he...

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

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John Dalberg Acton: There are two...

John Dalberg Acton: There are two...

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by...

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Will Durant: Nothing is new...

Will Durant: Nothing is new...

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is sometimes...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .

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