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William Makepeace Thackeray: Novelty has charms...

William Makepeace Thackeray: Novelty has charms...

Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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George Ade: Nothing is improbable...

George Ade: Nothing is improbable...

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

Djuna Barnes: We are beginning...

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes...

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Mark Twain: When you cannot...

Mark Twain: When you cannot...

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

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Mark Twain: Civilization is a...

Mark Twain: Civilization is a...

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

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Henry David Thoreau: Pity the man...

Henry David Thoreau: Pity the man...

Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor...

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Henry David Thoreau: The purity men...

Henry David Thoreau: The purity men...

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether...

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Thomas Carlyle: Egotism is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Egotism is the...

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Source: In The...

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Thomas ? Kempis: Adversities do not...

Thomas ? Kempis: Adversities do not...

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Source: In...

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Bertrand Russell: The degree of...

Bertrand Russell: The degree of...

The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you...

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Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in...

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Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

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Edna Ferber: I think that...

Edna Ferber: I think that...

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike,...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Let this great...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Let this great...

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide --
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that...

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Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it...

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J P Donleavy: I got disappointed...

J P Donleavy: I got disappointed...

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my...

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G K Chesterton: To say that...

G K Chesterton: To say that...

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

Source: In...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Life is too short for a long story.

Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...

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