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Anna Sewell: We call them...

Anna Sewell: We call them...

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because...

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Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Malcolm Bradbury: Culture is a...

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Source: In The...

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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 10 Commandments. We'd have had The 10...

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Paul Theroux: Extensive traveling induces...

Paul Theroux: Extensive traveling induces...

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the...

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Paul Theroux: I should have...

Paul Theroux: I should have...

I should have worked just long enough to discover that I didn't like it.

Source: In...

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Judith Guest: To have a...

Judith Guest: To have a...

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A...

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Tama Janowitz: I was like...

Tama Janowitz: I was like...

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I...

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Susan Warner: . . ....

Susan Warner: . . ....

. . . and many a good time we went back again, long afterward, and broke our rejected lump with great exultation to...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Since the masses...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Since the masses...

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as...

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Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Too much sensibility...

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand: Too much sensibility...

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

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A J Balfour: Nothing matters very...

A J Balfour: Nothing matters very...

Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all.

Source: Attr.
-- A...

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A J Balfour: It has always...

A J Balfour: It has always...

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

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Julius Caesar: I have lived...

Julius Caesar: I have lived...

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Source: Two years...

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Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Aim at perfection...

Philip Dormer Chesterfield: Aim at perfection...

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere,...

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Alexander Hamilton: Man is a...

Alexander Hamilton: Man is a...

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Source: In Correct Quotes for...

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Franklin Pierce: There's nothing left...

Franklin Pierce: There's nothing left...

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

Source: When asked what a President...

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Herbert Hoover: Many years ago,...

Herbert Hoover: Many years ago,...

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were the part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president...

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Andrew Jackson: It is a...

Andrew Jackson: It is a...

It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any...

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Gamal Abdel Nasser: People do not...

Gamal Abdel Nasser: People do not...

People do not want words they want the sound of battle. . . the battle of destiny.

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Carl Stokes: I knew my...

Carl Stokes: I knew my...

I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no...

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