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Margery Allingham: The optimism of...

Margery Allingham: The optimism of...

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Margery Allingham: Chemists employed by...

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can find it in shreds of cloth, in the...

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Margery Allingham: When one kicks...

Margery Allingham: When one kicks...

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on...

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Edgar Watson Howe: A good scare...

Edgar Watson Howe: A good scare...

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Source: Country Town Sayings,...

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Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

A modest man is usually admired -- if people ever hear of him.

Source: In Webster's...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Most people put...

Edgar Watson Howe: Most people put...

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

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G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

G K Chesterton: Art, like morality,...

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Source: Orthodoxy,...

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G K Chesterton: Courage is almost...

G K Chesterton: Courage is almost...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to...

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G K Chesterton: There is no...

G K Chesterton: There is no...

There is no skeptic who does not feel that men have doubted before, but no man in love thinks that anyone has been in...

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Henry David Thoreau: To inherit property...

Henry David Thoreau: To inherit property...

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

Source: In...

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John Dalberg Acton: A wise person...

John Dalberg Acton: A wise person...

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different...

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Daniel Boorstin: It is only...

Daniel Boorstin: It is only...

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the...

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Will Durant: The trouble with...

Will Durant: The trouble with...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes and fears rather than with their...

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C Northcote Parkinson: A committee is...

C Northcote Parkinson: A committee is...

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a...

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Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

Elias Canetti: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

Source:...

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Albert Schweitzer: Just as the...

Albert Schweitzer: Just as the...

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live...

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Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Bliss Carman: Set me a...

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is...

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Golda Meir: Old age is...

Golda Meir: Old age is...

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can...

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Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you...

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