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George Eliot: Children demand that...

George Eliot: Children demand that...

Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so . . .

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George Eliot: [T]here is one...

George Eliot: [T]here is one...

[T]here is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. . . . It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very...

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George Eliot: Self-confidence is apt...

George Eliot: Self-confidence is apt...

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a...

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Christopher Morley: There are three...

Christopher Morley: There are three...

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

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Mark Twain: The fact that...

Mark Twain: The fact that...

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that...

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Mark Twain: Soap and education...

Mark Twain: Soap and education...

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long...

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Mark Twain: As a rule...

Mark Twain: As a rule...

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and. . . Europe develops a borrowed American idea...

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Mark Twain: I can understand...

Mark Twain: I can understand...

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an...

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Mark Twain: The very ink...

Mark Twain: The very ink...

The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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Mark Twain: To do something,...

Mark Twain: To do something,...

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared...

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Mark Twain: There is nothing...

Mark Twain: There is nothing...

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

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Mark Twain: Write without pay...

Mark Twain: Write without pay...

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were...

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George Eliot: Genius at first...

George Eliot: Genius at first...

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Talent is always...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Talent is always...

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The sole substitute...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The sole substitute...

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of it attractiveness.

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Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish...

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often...

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Richard Bach: That she won...

Richard Bach: That she won...

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: Detection is, or...

Arthur Conan Doyle: Detection is, or...

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold unemotional manner. You have...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: You will, I...

Arthur Conan Doyle: You will, I...

You will, I am sure, agree with me that. . . if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first...

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