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Marie Antoinette: I have seen...

Marie Antoinette: I have seen...

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

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Elizabeth II: It's all to...

Elizabeth II: It's all to...

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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Charles II: He had been,...

Charles II: He had been,...

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse...

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James I: A branch of...

James I: A branch of...

A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.

Source: A...

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George McGovern: The trouble was,...

George McGovern: The trouble was,...

The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front; and they came away...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life is not...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: Life is not...

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being...

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Otto von Bismarck: Politics is the...

Otto von Bismarck: Politics is the...

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable . . . the art of the next best.

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Georges Clemenceau: All that I...

Georges Clemenceau: All that I...

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed....

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William Pitt the Elder: [C]onfidence is a...

William Pitt the Elder: [C]onfidence is a...

[C]onfidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity.

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Luigi Pirandello: When the characters...

Luigi Pirandello: When the characters...

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in...

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Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: The African, because...

The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery,...

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Robert Browning: Ah, but a...

Robert Browning: Ah, but a...

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

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Robert Frost: The brain is...

Robert Frost: The brain is...

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to...

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Virgil: They are able...

Virgil: They are able...

They are able because they think they are able.

Source: In Instant Quotation...

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Pindar: Natural ability is...

Pindar: Natural ability is...

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of...

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Robert Bly: I have wandered...

Robert Bly: I have wandered...

I have wandered in a face, for hours . . .

Source: In The Concise Columbia...

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John Donne: When I must...

John Donne: When I must...

When I must shipwrack, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotencie might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy...

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Robert Herrick: Who with a...

Robert Herrick: Who with a...

Who with a little cannot be content,
endures an everlasting punishment.


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Jean de LaFontaine: To win a...

Jean de LaFontaine: To win a...

To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.

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Joaquin Miller: The soul that...

Joaquin Miller: The soul that...

The soul that feeds on books alone --
I count that soul exceeding small
That lives alone by book and creed,...

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