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A E Housman: About the woodlands...

A E Housman: About the woodlands...

About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.


Source: A...

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A E Housman: A neck God...

A E Housman: A neck God...

A neck God made for other use
Than strangling in a string.


Source: A Shropshire...

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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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Hugo L Black: It is the...

Hugo L Black: It is the...

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting...

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Arthur J Goldberg: The trick is...

Arthur J Goldberg: The trick is...

The trick is to be there when it's settled.

Source: Responding to a question from...

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Dale Carnegie: You are merely...

Dale Carnegie: You are merely...

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Robertson Davies: Nothing is so...

Robertson Davies: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Source: Saraceni, in What's Bred in...

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Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Annie Dillard: Just once I...

Just once I wanted a task that required all the joy I had. Day after day I had noticed that if I waited long enough,...

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Annie Dillard: I don't know...

Annie Dillard: I don't know...

I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth,...

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Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Let me listen to me and not them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

[I]f it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Nobody had ever...

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary...

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Jerome K Jerome: Idleness, like kisses,...

Jerome K Jerome: Idleness, like kisses,...

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

Jerome K Jerome: The weather is...

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Source: Idle Thoughts of...

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Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Source: Droll...

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Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Richard Hughes: Nature is as...

Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn.

Source: The...

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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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Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: You know my...

Arthur Conan Doyle: You know my...

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles.

Source: The...

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