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Malcolm Bradbury: Reading someone else's...

Malcolm Bradbury: Reading someone else's...

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right...

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Henry Highland Garnet: Let your motto...

Henry Highland Garnet: Let your motto...

Let your motto be resistance! resistance! RESISTANCE! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without...

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Norman Vincent Peale: The trouble with...

Norman Vincent Peale: The trouble with...

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by...

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Gilbert Ryle: Philosophy is the...

Gilbert Ryle: Philosophy is the...

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

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B. J. Gupta: Earlier people used...

B. J. Gupta: Earlier people used...

Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work...

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Gaston Bachelard: To live life...

Gaston Bachelard: To live life...

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no...

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Socrates: The hour of...

Socrates: The hour of...

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways --I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do....

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Jeremy Taylor: No man is...

Jeremy Taylor: No man is...

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims...

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A W Tozer: The Word of...

A W Tozer: The Word of...

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not...

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Heraclitus of Ephesus: Opposition brings concord....

Heraclitus of Ephesus: Opposition brings concord....

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the greatest harmony.

Source: In...

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Marguerite Duras: The best way...

Marguerite Duras: The best way...

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Source: Practicalities, Wasting Time,...

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Eden Phillpotts: The people sensible...

Eden Phillpotts: The people sensible...

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

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Ben Hecht: Prejudice is a...

Ben Hecht: Prejudice is a...

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

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Judith Viorst: Brevity may be...

Judith Viorst: Brevity may be...

Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying I love you.

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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: I never failed...

Thomas Love Peacock: I never failed...

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

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George Meredith: Not till the...

George Meredith: Not till the...

Not till the fire is dying in the grate,
Look we for any kinship with the stars.
Oh, wisdom never comes when it...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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