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Mark Twain: The miracle, or...

Mark Twain: The miracle, or...

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under...

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James Allen: Good thoughts bear...

James Allen: Good thoughts bear...

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit -- and man is his own gardener.

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James Allen: Whether you be...

James Allen: Whether you be...

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of...

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E B White: Analyzing humor is...

E B White: Analyzing humor is...

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of...

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E B White: Be obscure clearly....

E B White: Be obscure clearly....

Be obscure clearly.

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

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E B White: DEMOCRACY: n: The...

E B White: DEMOCRACY: n: The...

DEMOCRACY: n: The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the...

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E B White: I have occasionally...

E B White: I have occasionally...

I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give a...

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Frederick Douglass: The mind does...

Frederick Douglass: The mind does...

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....

Source: In Famous Black...

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E M Forster: [The Englishman] has...

E M Forster: [The Englishman] has...

[The Englishman] has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or...

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Annie Dillard: I startled a...

Annie Dillard: I startled a...

I startled a weasel who startled me, and we exchanged a long glance. . . . Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I did not...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I did not...

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Source: Referring to...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: There comes a...

Arthur Conan Doyle: There comes a...

There comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: My name is...

Arthur Conan Doyle: My name is...

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.

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Edgar Watson Howe: Wise Man: One...

Edgar Watson Howe: Wise Man: One...

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

Source: The...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Don't be crazy...

Edgar Watson Howe: Don't be crazy...

Don't be crazy to do a lot of things you can't do .

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

Edward Dahlberg: Utility is our...

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother,...

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Edward Dahlberg: So much of...

Edward Dahlberg: So much of...

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our...

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Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Anthony Burgess: Novelists are perhaps...

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has...

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Anthony Burgess: Life is a...

Anthony Burgess: Life is a...

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Source: On Samuel...

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Charles Dickens: You can only...

Charles Dickens: You can only...

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick...

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