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Aesop: Any excuse will...

Aesop: Any excuse will...

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Source: 'The Wolf and the Lamb'
-- Aesop, ( ...

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Annie Dillard: I woke in...

Annie Dillard: I woke in...

I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and...

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Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Gertrude Stein: Let me listen...

Let me listen to me and not them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very...

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Jessamyn West: If I were...

Jessamyn West: If I were...

If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a...

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Jessamyn West: I have done...

Jessamyn West: I have done...

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

Jerome K Jerome: It is in...

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our...

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Jerome K Jerome: Nothing is more...

Jerome K Jerome: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young,...

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Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Honore de Balzac: Journalism is a...

Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.

Source: Droll...

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Honore de Balzac: It is easier...

Honore de Balzac: It is easier...

It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day...

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Honore de Balzac: I should like...

Honore de Balzac: I should like...

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . ....

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Honore de Balzac: Behind every fortune...

Honore de Balzac: Behind every fortune...

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

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

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Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Honore de Balzac: Hope is a...

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

Honore de Balzac: In diving to...

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Source: In...

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E B White: From three to...

E B White: From three to...

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be...

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E B White: She would write...

E B White: She would write...

She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

Source: On...

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Frederick Douglass: We have to...

Frederick Douglass: We have to...

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

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Frederick Douglass: Men may not...

Frederick Douglass: Men may not...

Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they...

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