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Christopher Morley: When you sell...

Christopher Morley: When you sell...

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue you sell him a whole new...

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Mark Twain: You can't depend...

Mark Twain: You can't depend...

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: If you pick...

Mark Twain: If you pick...

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...

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Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a...

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -- it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. . . . And so, as soon as...

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Mark Twain: Let us endeavor...

Mark Twain: Let us endeavor...

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

Mark Twain: I reverently believe...

I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who...

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Mark Twain: My books are...

Mark Twain: My books are...

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

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Mark Twain: Scientists have odious...

Mark Twain: Scientists have odious...

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of...

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Mark Twain: Let me make...

Mark Twain: Let me make...

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs...

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Mark Twain: I have found...

Mark Twain: I have found...

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with...

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George Eliot: An ass may...

George Eliot: An ass may...

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Source: Romola, ch....

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes . . . . we make mistakes because the easiest...

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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Richard Bach: Real love stories...

Richard Bach: Real love stories...

Real love stories never have endings.

Source: The Bridge Across Forever
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Henry David Thoreau: I find it...

Henry David Thoreau: I find it...

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and...

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Henry David Thoreau: Live your life,...

Henry David Thoreau: Live your life,...

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Honore de Balzac: Hatred is the...

Honore de Balzac: Hatred is the...

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base...

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Honore de Balzac: No man should...

Honore de Balzac: No man should...

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

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G K Chesterton: Angels can fly...

G K Chesterton: Angels can fly...

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Source: 'Orthodoxy'
-- G K...

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