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George Meredith: Cynicism is intellectual...

George Meredith: Cynicism is intellectual...

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

Source: Clara...

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John Sterling: The worst education...

John Sterling: The worst education...

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not...

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Thomas Love Peacock: A book that...

Thomas Love Peacock: A book that...

A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything.

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Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Thomas Love Peacock: Respectable means rich,...

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called...

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Boris Pasternak: Everything established, settled,...

Boris Pasternak: Everything established, settled,...

Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common round, has crumbled into dust and...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Joyce Carol Oates: Where we come...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!


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Mark Twain: A crime persevered...

Mark Twain: A crime persevered...

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and...

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S J Perelman: You've a sharp...

S J Perelman: You've a sharp...

You've a sharp tongue in your head, Mr Essick. Look out it doesn't cut your throat.

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S J Perelman: The fact is...

S J Perelman: The fact is...

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. . . . You are what you...

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S J Perelman: For years I...

S J Perelman: For years I...

For years I have let dentists ride roughshod over my teeth: I have been sawed, hacked, chopped, whittled, bewitched,...

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S J Perelman: A case of...

S J Perelman: A case of...

A case of the tail dogging the wag.

Source: Having escaped with some difficulty...

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Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Channing Pollock: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a way-station between too little and too much.

Source: Mr....

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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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A A Milne: My spelling is...

A A Milne: My spelling is...

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong...

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Ernest Bramah: Where the road...

Ernest Bramah: Where the road...

Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Innovators and men...

Innovators and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning (and very often at the end) of...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...

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Herman Melville: If I have...

Herman Melville: If I have...

If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably...

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