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Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

Wilson Mizner: I hate careless...

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

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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 Frost: I shall be...

Robert Frost: I shall be...

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I...

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Pindar: Not every truth...

Pindar: Not every truth...

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to...

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Robert Herrick: It is the...

Robert Herrick: It is the...

It is the will that makes the action good or ill.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at...

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Make no sound,...

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: Make no sound,...

Make no sound, do not speak: eyes, heart, mind dreams are about to explore a forest . . . . A secret but tangible...

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Rupert Brooke: Breathless, we flung...

Rupert Brooke: Breathless, we flung...

Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely...

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Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

Elizabeth Bishop: All my life...

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like [the] sandpiper -- just running down the edges of different...

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Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Source:...

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: A poet's autobiography...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: A poet's autobiography...

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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Katherine Paterson: Peace is not...

Katherine Paterson: Peace is not...

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out...

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Max Frisch: When you say...

Max Frisch: When you say...

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you...

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Mark Twain: What is there...

Mark Twain: What is there...

What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others...

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Horace Walpole: Mystery is the...

Horace Walpole: Mystery is the...

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by...

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Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time...

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William H Gass: The speeding reader...

William H Gass: The speeding reader...

The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins;...

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Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Rose Tremain: Life should be...

Life should be embraced like a lover.

Source: In ...As One Mad With Wine, by Elyse...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Life is a little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

Source: In...

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Enid Bagnold: As for death...

Enid Bagnold: As for death...

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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