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Arthur Conan Doyle: There is nothing...

Arthur Conan Doyle: There is nothing...

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Source: The Bascombe Valley...

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Erica Jong: It is for...

Erica Jong: It is for...

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I...

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Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it...

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George Moore: The wrong way...

George Moore: The wrong way...

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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George Moore: God is a...

George Moore: God is a...

God is a great expense but government would be impossible without him.

Source: In...

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Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

Edgar Watson Howe: A modest man...

A modest man is usually admired -- if people ever hear of him.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mark Twain: Don't you worry,...

Mark Twain: Don't you worry,...

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.'I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the...

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Mark Twain: A banker is...

Mark Twain: A banker is...

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to...

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Mark Twain: A joke, even...

Mark Twain: A joke, even...

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder...

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Mark Twain: At bottom he...

Mark Twain: At bottom he...

At bottom he [Carlyle] was probably fond of them [the Americans], but he was always able to conceal...

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Mark Twain: I could have...

Mark Twain: I could have...

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented...

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Mark Twain: I can teach...

Mark Twain: I can teach...

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me...

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Mark Twain: I'm glad that...

Mark Twain: I'm glad that...

I'm glad that the old masters are all dead, and I only wish they had died sooner.

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Mark Twain: I could never...

Mark Twain: I could never...

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in...

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Mark Twain: I have made...

Mark Twain: I have made...

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Source:
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Mark Twain: It is better...

Mark Twain: It is better...

It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise.

Source:
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Mark Twain: I would like...

Mark Twain: I would like...

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be...

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Mark Twain: It was the...

Mark Twain: It was the...

It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: I think I...

Jane Austen: I think I...

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: It says nothing...

Friedrich Nietzsche: It says nothing...

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

Source:...

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