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Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

Malcolm Bradbury: If God had...

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten...

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S J Perelman: Learning is what...

S J Perelman: Learning is what...

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Source: In...

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Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Channing Pollock: Calm self-confidence is...

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from...

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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.

Source:...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill<br>By...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: John Stuart Mill
By...

John Stuart Mill
By a mighty effort of will
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political...

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy<br>Abominated...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated...

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered...

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Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Italo Calvino: Biographical data, even...

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare...

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Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Frederick Douglass: Be not discouraged....

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . . . Only as we...

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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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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Source: Aphorisms, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Even a stopped...

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years, it can boast of a long series of...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you want...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you want...

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will...

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Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Louis Auchincloss: Keep doing good...

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of...

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John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

John Barth: Nothing is intrinsically...

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Augusto Roa Bastos: Man is an...

Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without...

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Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

Jean Ingelow: I have lived...

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Source: From...

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Tom Clancy: I've made up...

Tom Clancy: I've made up...

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Source: On...

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Norman Douglas: A man can...

Norman Douglas: A man can...

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, an yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful...

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Norman Douglas: What is all...

Norman Douglas: What is all...

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite,...

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Norman Douglas: They who are...

Norman Douglas: They who are...

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

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