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William Wycherley: Go to your...

William Wycherley: Go to your...

Go to your business, I say, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

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Joseph Brodsky: Bad literature ....

Joseph Brodsky: Bad literature ....

Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.

Source: In NY Times, 1 Oct 72
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George Gordon Byron: For in itself...

George Gordon Byron: For in itself...

For in itself a thought,
A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
And curdles a long life into one...

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Robert Browning: It is best...

Robert Browning: It is best...

It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...

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John Lyly: Many strokes overthrow...

John Lyly: Many strokes overthrow...

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Douglas Jerrold: Earth is here...

Douglas Jerrold: Earth is here...

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

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Nicolas Boileau: The world is...

Nicolas Boileau: The world is...

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also...

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Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

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Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you...

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Francis Beaumont: Interest makes some...

Francis Beaumont: Interest makes some...

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

Source: In Correct...

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Francis Beaumont: It is always...

Francis Beaumont: It is always...

It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.


Source: The Faithful...

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Walter Bagehot: Public opinion is...

Walter Bagehot: Public opinion is...

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's...

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Walter Bagehot: A bureaucracy is...

Walter Bagehot: A bureaucracy is...

A bureaucracy is sure to think that its duty is to augment official power, official business, or official members,...

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Henry George: Progressive societies outgrow...

Henry George: Progressive societies outgrow...

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Source: In...

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The one predominant...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The one predominant...

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Source: The Living of...

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Thorstein Veblen: In point of...

Thorstein Veblen: In point of...

In point of substantial merit -- the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing and...

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Joseph A Schumpeter: Marxism is essentially...

Joseph A Schumpeter: Marxism is essentially...

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Source: Capitalism,...

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Joseph P Kennedy: More men die...

Joseph P Kennedy: More men die...

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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Andrew Mellon: Liquidate labor, liquidate...

Andrew Mellon: Liquidate labor, liquidate...

Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers.

Source: Comment to Herber...

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