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Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

Enid Bagnold: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much...

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Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern...

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James Agee: He used this...

James Agee: He used this...

He used this great, sad, motionless face to suggest various related things: a one-track mind near the track's end of...

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Anne Bronte: All true histories...

Anne Bronte: All true histories...

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial...

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Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

Thomas Love Peacock: He was sent,...

He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to...

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James Agee: We are talking...

James Agee: We are talking...

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully...

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James Agee: God doesn't believe...

James Agee: God doesn't believe...

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Source: In The Book of Southern Wisdom, by...

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George Meredith: Much benevolence of...

George Meredith: Much benevolence of...

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon...

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Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

Sir Walter Scott: When a man...

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it...

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John Dalberg Acton: The most certain...

John Dalberg Acton: The most certain...

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by...

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Kate Seredy: The past lived...

Kate Seredy: The past lived...

The past lived in songs, the present in their flashing swords,and the future in their...

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Kate Seredy: I make money...

Kate Seredy: I make money...

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty...

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Jean Genet: The fame of...

Jean Genet: The fame of...

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to...

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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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Alvin Toffler: The great growling...

Alvin Toffler: The great growling...

The great growling engine of change -- technology.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Stanley Baldwin: Power without responsibility...

Stanley Baldwin: Power without responsibility...

Power without responsibility -- the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

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Stanley Baldwin: You will find...

Stanley Baldwin: You will find...

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never...

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Julius Caesar: All bad precedents...

Julius Caesar: All bad precedents...

All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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J Edgar Hoover: No amount of...

J Edgar Hoover: No amount of...

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

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J Edgar Hoover: The cure for...

J Edgar Hoover: The cure for...

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Source: In The...

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