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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

G K Chesterton: Tradition means giving...

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes --our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. ...

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George Eliot: People who can't...

George Eliot: People who can't...

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Forget the outside world. Life has different laws in here. This is Campland, an invisible country. It's not in the...

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Jane Austen: Every man is...

Jane Austen: Every man is...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Source: In The...

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Jane Austen: It is a...

Jane Austen: It is a...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a...

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Jane Austen: Single women have...

Jane Austen: Single women have...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...

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Jane Austen: The post-office had...

Jane Austen: The post-office had...

The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think...

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Mark Twain: There is nothing...

Mark Twain: There is nothing...

There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they...

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Mark Twain: A man who...

Mark Twain: A man who...

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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Mark Twain: By hard, honest...

Mark Twain: By hard, honest...

By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three...

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Mark Twain: Be Yourself is...

Mark Twain: Be Yourself is...

Be Yourself is about the worst advice you can give to people.

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-- Mark...

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Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

Charles Dickens: We didn't find...

We didn't find that it [London] come up to its likeness in the red bills - it is there drawd too...

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Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

Charles Dickens: C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb...

C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy...

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Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Charles Dickens: Dumb as a...

Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir.

Source: (Sam Weller) Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: But the words...

Charles Dickens: But the words...

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget.

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Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
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Charles Dickens: Skewered through and...

Charles Dickens: Skewered through and...

Skewered through and through with office pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

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Charles Dickens: I never could...

Charles Dickens: I never could...

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the...

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Charles Dickens: Kent, sir --...

Charles Dickens: Kent, sir --...

Kent, sir -- everybody knows Kent -- apples, cherries, hops, and women.

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