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E B White: I would feel...

E B White: I would feel...

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and...

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Pearl Buck: Praise out of...

Pearl Buck: Praise out of...

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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Honore de Balzac: The more one...

Honore de Balzac: The more one...

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Mark Twain: Never tell the...

Mark Twain: Never tell the...

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

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-- Mark Twain,...

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Mark Twain: There are German...

Mark Twain: There are German...

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Source: In...

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Anatole France: The average man...

Anatole France: The average man...

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last...

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Aesop: Beware that you...

Aesop: Beware that you...

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

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Aesop: Thinking to get...

Aesop: Thinking to get...

Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find -...

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Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.

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Annie Dillard: The body of...

Annie Dillard: The body of...

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer...

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Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

Annie Dillard: The dedicated life...

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

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Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

Jerome K Jerome: It is a...

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

Jerome K Jerome: It is so...

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being...

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Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

Agatha Christie: An archaeologist is...

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: You gave him...

Friedrich Nietzsche: You gave him...

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: I teach you...

Friedrich Nietzsche: I teach you...

I teach you the Superman [?bermensch]. Man is something that should be overcome.

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Women are considered...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Women are considered...

Women are considered deep -- why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Distrust everyone in...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Distrust everyone in...

Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

Source: Thus Spoke...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: If a woman...

Friedrich Nietzsche: If a woman...

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Without music, life...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Without music, life...

Without music, life would be a mistake.

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

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