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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own...

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Jessamyn West: A taste for...

Jessamyn West: A taste for...

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke...

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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Jerome K Jerome: Conceit is the...

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...

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Honore de Balzac: Vocations which we...

Honore de Balzac: Vocations which we...

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our...

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Honore de Balzac: With monuments as...

Honore de Balzac: With monuments as...

With monuments as with men, position means everything.

Source: Droll Stories,...

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Honore de Balzac: If we could...

Honore de Balzac: If we could...

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

Source: In The...

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Honore de Balzac: To kill a...

Honore de Balzac: To kill a...

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Time engraves our...

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Source: Quoted in:...

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Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

Agatha Christie: If one sticks...

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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Aesop: Wealth unused might...

Aesop: Wealth unused might...

Wealth unused might as well not exist.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Aesop: It is in...

Aesop: It is in...

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

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Louisa May Alcott: Life is my...

Louisa May Alcott: Life is my...

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

Source: In The...

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Jane Austen: To sit in...

Jane Austen: To sit in...

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Jane Austen: Where an opinion...

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

Source: Mary Crawford, in...

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Henry David Thoreau: The perception of...

Henry David Thoreau: The perception of...

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Henry David Thoreau: Many men go...

Henry David Thoreau: Many men go...

Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

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Henry David Thoreau: Only the traveling...

Henry David Thoreau: Only the traveling...

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it...

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Henry David Thoreau: We are not...

Henry David Thoreau: We are not...

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of...

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