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Frederick Douglass: [W]henever my condition...

Frederick Douglass: [W]henever my condition...

[W]henever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real...

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Anthony Burgess: The possession of...

Anthony Burgess: The possession of...

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Source: New York...

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P G Wodehouse: Golf, like measles,...

P G Wodehouse: Golf, like measles,...

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Source: In The Golfer's Book of Wisdom,...

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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: A classic --something...

Mark Twain: A classic --something...

A classic --something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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Mark Twain: Man is the...

Mark Twain: Man is the...

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Source: Following the Equator,...

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Mark Twain: The man with...

Mark Twain: The man with...

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Source: Following the...

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Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Graham Henry Greene: Catholics and Communists...

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established...

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George Eliot: The poverty of...

George Eliot: The poverty of...

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in...

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Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets...

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Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: In our country...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: In our country...

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

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Jane Austen: A person who...

Jane Austen: A person who...

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Source: Miss...

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Jane Austen: Business, you know,...

Jane Austen: Business, you know,...

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Source: Emma,...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you wish...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: If you wish...

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man . . .you will get better results if you just watch...

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Henri Matisse: What I dream...

Henri Matisse: What I dream...

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject...

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Charles Kettering: My interest is...

Charles Kettering: My interest is...

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

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Alexander Graham Bell: Great discoveries and...

Alexander Graham Bell: Great discoveries and...

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

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