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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Honore de Balzac: Necessity is the...

Necessity is the spur of genius.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Honore de Balzac: Manners are the...

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Source: Quoted in: Andr? Gide, Journals 1889...

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G K Chesterton: Man does not...

G K Chesterton: Man does not...

Man does not live by soap alone, and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of...

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G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

G K Chesterton: Charity is the...

Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in...

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G K Chesterton: To be simple...

G K Chesterton: To be simple...

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being...

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G K Chesterton: How you think...

G K Chesterton: How you think...

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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G K Chesterton: Courage is getting...

G K Chesterton: Courage is getting...

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

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Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever...

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Louisa May Alcott: I am not...

Louisa May Alcott: I am not...

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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George Eliot: The desire to...

George Eliot: The desire to...

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....

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George Eliot: One must be...

George Eliot: One must be...

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Source: Middlemarch, bk. 2, ch. 17...

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George Eliot: To have in...

George Eliot: To have in...

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular...

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George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3, 1868.
-- George...

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George Eliot: Education was almost...

George Eliot: Education was almost...

Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.

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Mark Twain: Hain't we got...

Mark Twain: Hain't we got...

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any...

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Mark Twain: There was never...

Mark Twain: There was never...

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is...

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Mark Twain: The first half...

Mark Twain: The first half...

The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance...

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Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses...

Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses...

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.

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