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Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Sir Walter, with...

Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: When a doctor...

Arthur Conan Doyle: When a doctor...

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has...

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Robertson Davies: The dog is...

Robertson Davies: The dog is...

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

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Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Gertrude Stein: Remarks are not...

Remarks are not literature.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

[I]f it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were...

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Ralph Ellison: If the word...

Ralph Ellison: If the word...

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and...

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Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

Honore de Balzac: The motto of...

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

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Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

Madeleine L'Engle: It's a good...

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock...

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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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James Allen: The birds are...

James Allen: The birds are...

The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind one a year its errors, his heart once a year its...

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James Allen: You will become...

James Allen: You will become...

You will become as small as your dominate desire; as great as your dominate aspiration.

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E B White: I arise in...

E B White: I arise in...

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the...

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Mark Twain: Accident is the...

Mark Twain: Accident is the...

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Mark Twain: All the modern...

Mark Twain: All the modern...

All the modern inconveniences.

Source: Life on the Mississippi.
-- Mark Twain,...

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Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Mark Twain: Few sinners have...

Few sinners have been saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Golf is a...

Mark Twain: Golf is a...

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Source: Attributed; quoted in Greatly Exaggerated, ed....

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Mark Twain: I don't like...

Mark Twain: I don't like...

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both...

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Aesop: Example is the...

Aesop: Example is the...

Example is the best precept.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Margot Asquith: To marry a...

Margot Asquith: To marry a...

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had...

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Gertrude Stein: Oh, I wish...

Gertrude Stein: Oh, I wish...

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Source: Quoted by...

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