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Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...

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Graham Henry Greene: Media is a...

Graham Henry Greene: Media is a...

Media is a word that has come to mean bad journalism.

Source: Ways of Escape.
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Graham Henry Greene: Fame is a...

Graham Henry Greene: Fame is a...

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Source: Radio Times, 10 Sept 1964
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Clive Barker: It is great...

Clive Barker: It is great...

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is...

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Clive Barker: To you who...

Clive Barker: To you who...

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

Source: In The...

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George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

George Eliot: The scornful nostril...

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of...

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George Eliot: It is seldom...

George Eliot: It is seldom...

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are...

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George Eliot: Vanity is as...

George Eliot: Vanity is as...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot...

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Edward Everett: You shall not...

Edward Everett: You shall not...

You shall not pile, with servile toil,
Your monuments upon my breast,
Nor yet within the common soil
Lay down...

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Theodore Isaac Rubin: Kindness is more...

Theodore Isaac Rubin: Kindness is more...

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of...

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Stanley Baldwin: The intelligent are...

Stanley Baldwin: The intelligent are...

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Source:...

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Herbert Henry Asquith: Greatness is a...

Herbert Henry Asquith: Greatness is a...

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Pericles: Our love of...

Pericles: Our love of...

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us...

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William E Gladstone: No man ever...

William E Gladstone: No man ever...

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Source: In...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't stint on...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't stint on...

Don't stint on foreplay -- or afterplay. Be inventive!

Source: In Words of Wisdom,...

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Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not...

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Jean Baudrillard: Everywhere one seeks...

Jean Baudrillard: Everywhere one seeks...

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in...

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William James Mayo: Lord, deliver me...

William James Mayo: Lord, deliver me...

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake...

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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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Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and...

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