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Booker T Washington: The world cares...

Booker T Washington: The world cares...

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that...

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William Pickens: An insignificant right...

William Pickens: An insignificant right...

An insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

Source: The Ultimate...

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Thomas Carlyle: The block of...

Thomas Carlyle: The block of...

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the...

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Claude Bernard: Put off your...

Claude Bernard: Put off your...

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on...

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Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

Anthony Burgess: The trouble began...

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six...

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Andre Gide: The want of...

Andre Gide: The want of...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains...

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Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

Arthur Koestler: The progress of...

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Marguerite Yourcenar: Leaving behind books...

Leaving behind books is even more beautiful -- there are far too many children.

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P G Wodehouse: If I had...

P G Wodehouse: If I had...

If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it...

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Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Christopher Morley: Cherish all your...

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for your old age.

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Mark Twain: If you tell...

Mark Twain: If you tell...

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Source: In 1,911 Best...

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Channing Pollock: No man in...

Channing Pollock: No man in...

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren<br>Said,...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley: Sir Christopher Wren
Said,...

Sir Christopher Wren
Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anybody calls
Say I am designing St...

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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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Mary Webb: When you dwell...

Mary Webb: When you dwell...

When you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of a window a deal more than those that are content with...

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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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Jane Austen: I think I...

Jane Austen: I think I...

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to...

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James Allen: Whether you be...

James Allen: Whether you be...

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Time . ....

Time . . . is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And...

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Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only,...

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