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George Eliot: Life is measured...

George Eliot: Life is measured...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...

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Charles Dickens: If your governor...

Charles Dickens: If your governor...

If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly...

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Charles Dickens: O Mrs Higden,...

Charles Dickens: O Mrs Higden,...

O Mrs Higden, Mrs Higden, you was a woman and a mother, and a mangler in a million...

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Charles Dickens: Minds, like bodies,...

Charles Dickens: Minds, like bodies,...

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of...

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Charles Dickens: Fan the sinking...

Charles Dickens: Fan the sinking...

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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Charles Dickens: The men who...

Charles Dickens: The men who...

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

Their teacher had advised them not to read Tolstoy novels, because they were very long and would easily confuse the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that...

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Jane Austen: Let other pens...

Jane Austen: Let other pens...

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Source: Mansfield Park, Ch. 48
-- Jane...

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Jane Austen: Where so many...

Jane Austen: Where so many...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be...

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Honore de Balzac: When women love...

Honore de Balzac: When women love...

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Crime is common....

Arthur Conan Doyle: Crime is common....

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime you should...

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Albert Schweitzer: I have always...

Albert Schweitzer: I have always...

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an...

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Albert Schweitzer: Seek always to...

Albert Schweitzer: Seek always to...

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give...

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G K Chesterton: And we were...

G K Chesterton: And we were...

And we were angry and poor and happy,
And proud of seeing our names in print.


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G K Chesterton: A great deal...

G K Chesterton: A great deal...

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very...

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G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

G K Chesterton: Boyhood is a...

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what...

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G K Chesterton: Mr Shaw is...

G K Chesterton: Mr Shaw is...

Mr Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any poetry.

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Henry David Thoreau: What is peculiar...

Henry David Thoreau: What is peculiar...

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one...

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Henry David Thoreau: If a thousand...

Henry David Thoreau: If a thousand...

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it...

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