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Gay Talese: The reporter ....

Gay Talese: The reporter ....

The reporter . . . wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on...

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Alan Brien: The country is...

Alan Brien: The country is...

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized...

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Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Mark Twain: Adam was the...

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before...

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Mark Twain: All you need...

Mark Twain: All you need...

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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Mark Twain: What is there...

Mark Twain: What is there...

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which...

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Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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John Fowles: There are many...

John Fowles: There are many...

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative...

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Graham Henry Greene: Morality comes with...

Graham Henry Greene: Morality comes with...

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

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George Eliot: It is only...

George Eliot: It is only...

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have...

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George Eliot: Those who trust...

George Eliot: Those who trust...

Those who trust us educate us.

Source:
-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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E B White: Luck is not...

E B White: Luck is not...

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Frederick Douglass: Those who profess...

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want rain without thunder and...

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Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Frederick Douglass: Power concedes nothing...

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices...

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William Faulkner: All of us...

William Faulkner: All of us...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the...

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William Faulkner: People need trouble...

William Faulkner: People need trouble...

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to...

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Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Charles Dickens: Home is a...

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the...

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Marcus Cato: Wise men learn...

Marcus Cato: Wise men learn...

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from wise men.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Marcus Cato: I can pardon...

Marcus Cato: I can pardon...

I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Henry St John Bolingbroke: Nations, like men,...

Henry St John Bolingbroke: Nations, like men,...

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Source: On the Study and Uses of History,...

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Maria Montessori: If an educational...

Maria Montessori: If an educational...

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of...

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