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Charles Dickens: I am always...

Charles Dickens: I am always...

I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the...

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Charles Dickens: They are so...

Charles Dickens: They are so...

They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet...

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Charles Dickens: Annual income twenty...

Charles Dickens: Annual income twenty...

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds,...

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Charles Dickens: The word of...

Charles Dickens: The word of...

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Source: In...

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Charles Dickens: Subdue your appetites,...

Charles Dickens: Subdue your appetites,...

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Source: Mr....

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Charles Dickens: It was as...

Charles Dickens: It was as...

It was as true as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Source: Mr. Barkis, in...

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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.

Source:...

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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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G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

G K Chesterton: Lying in bed...

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a coloured pencil long enough to...

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G K Chesterton: No one can...

G K Chesterton: No one can...

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and...

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G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

G K Chesterton: Smile at us,...

Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget. For we are the people of England, that never have spoken...

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G K Chesterton: Compromise used to...

G K Chesterton: Compromise used to...

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that...

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Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...

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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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