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Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Most virtue is...

Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

Source: Quoted in: My Country 'tis...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Source: Quoted in: Gods, in Adam, no. 299...

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Mark Twain: Are you going...

Mark Twain: Are you going...

Are you going to hang him anyhow - and try him afterward?

Source: Innocents at...

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Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Mark Twain: Annihilation has no...

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -- a hundred million years --...

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Mark Twain: Eternal rest sounds...

Mark Twain: Eternal rest sounds...

Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your...

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Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Mark Twain: Fame is a...

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

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Mark Twain: History is strewn...

Mark Twain: History is strewn...

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is...

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Mark Twain: I am a...

Mark Twain: I am a...

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this...

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Mark Twain: Happiness is like...

Mark Twain: Happiness is like...

Happiness is like a Swedish sunset -- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose...

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Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Mark Twain: Human nature is...

Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for...

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Mark Twain: Let us consider...

Mark Twain: Let us consider...

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it...

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Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Honore de Balzac: Power is not...

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

Source: In...

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Erica Jong: Advice is what...

Erica Jong: Advice is what...

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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George Moore: A very slight...

George Moore: A very slight...

A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the...

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Edgar Watson Howe: A theory is...

Edgar Watson Howe: A theory is...

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Source: In The...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Youth is about...

Edgar Watson Howe: Youth is about...

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

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E B White: A man who...

E B White: A man who...

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A...

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Frederick Douglass: Find out just...

Frederick Douglass: Find out just...

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which...

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E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

E M Forster: Ideas are fatal...

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Source: A Passage to India, pt. 1, ch. 7, 1924.
-- E M...

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George Eliot: What makes life...

George Eliot: What makes life...

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Source: Daniel Deronda.
--...

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