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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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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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Arthur Conan Doyle: It is a...

Arthur Conan Doyle: It is a...

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

Arthur Conan Doyle: I consider that...

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as...

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Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

Arthur Conan Doyle: From a drop...

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard...

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Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Erica Jong: Growing up female...

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice...

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Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Source: Fear of Flying, 1973
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G K Chesterton: The road from...

G K Chesterton: The road from...

The road from heaven to Hereford
Where the apple wood of Hereford
Goes all the way to...

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G K Chesterton: A great deal...

G K Chesterton: A great deal...

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course I do not like green cheese: I am very...

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