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Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Lemuel B Haynes: Had the devil...

Had the devil come to our first parents personally and unmasked, they would have more easily seen the...

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Eric Butterworth: Our job is...

Eric Butterworth: Our job is...

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Ernest Renan: Man makes holy...

Ernest Renan: Man makes holy...

Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Source: In...

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Bertrand Russell: One of the...

Bertrand Russell: One of the...

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly...

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George Eliot: The responsibility of...

George Eliot: The responsibility of...

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

Source: In...

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Henry Miller: The world itself...

Henry Miller: The world itself...

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Generosity is a...

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his...

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Henry Fielding: The prudence of...

Henry Fielding: The prudence of...

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

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Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

Thomas Wolfe: If a man...

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the...

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Attacking is the...

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it...

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Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

Peter Abrahams: With Shakespeare and...

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired...

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Joyce Cary: For good and...

Joyce Cary: For good and...

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in...

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Leo Rosten: If you're going...

Leo Rosten: If you're going...

If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Margaret Mitchell: Until you've lost...

Margaret Mitchell: Until you've lost...

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

There was never a night that had no morn.

Source: The Golden Gate, Mulock's Poems,...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.


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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: What an immense...

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very...

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Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Vance Palmer: Anyone who takes...

Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. ....

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Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

Paul Theroux: The Peace Corps...

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Anthony Burgess: Laugh and the...

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.

Source: Inside Mr....

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