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G K Chesterton: The old idea...

G K Chesterton: The old idea...

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that...

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G K Chesterton: The family is...

G K Chesterton: The family is...

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by...

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G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

G K Chesterton: Carlyle said that...

Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all...

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G K Chesterton: We make our...

G K Chesterton: We make our...

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbor.

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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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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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Gertrude Stein: But then of...

Gertrude Stein: But then of...

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Many a humble...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Many a humble...

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed...

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Jerome K Jerome: Idleness, like kisses,...

Jerome K Jerome: Idleness, like kisses,...

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by...

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Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

Honore de Balzac: Equality may perhaps...

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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Honore de Balzac: Most people of...

Honore de Balzac: Most people of...

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

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Agatha Christie: It is ridiculous...

Agatha Christie: It is ridiculous...

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City -- New York City is itself a detective...

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Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing...

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Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Jean Toomer: Most novices picture...

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few...

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Edgar Watson Howe: The sounder your...

Edgar Watson Howe: The sounder your...

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Source: In The...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Families with babies...

Edgar Watson Howe: Families with babies...

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

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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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