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G K Chesterton: Love means to...

G K Chesterton: Love means to...

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Source: In...

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Mark Twain: Good breeding consists...

Mark Twain: Good breeding consists...

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other...

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Edward Dahlberg: Perhaps Samuel Johnson...

Edward Dahlberg: Perhaps Samuel Johnson...

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

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Charles Dickens: If you could...

Charles Dickens: If you could...

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection...

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Charles Dickens: Charity begins at...

Charles Dickens: Charity begins at...

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Source: Tigg, in Martin...

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George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: For a country...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: For a country...

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has ever loved great...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Nowadays we don't...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Nowadays we don't...

Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we...

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Richard Bach: You don't tell...

Richard Bach: You don't tell...

You don't tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Source: In...

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G K Chesterton: The folk that...

G K Chesterton: The folk that...

The folk that live in Liverpool, their heart is in their boots;
They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the...

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G K Chesterton: The ordinary scientific...

G K Chesterton: The ordinary scientific...

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is...

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G K Chesterton: For the great...

G K Chesterton: For the great...

For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their...

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G K Chesterton: People accuse journalism...

G K Chesterton: People accuse journalism...

People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with...

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G K Chesterton: If a thing...

G K Chesterton: If a thing...

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Source: What's Wrong with the...

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E B White: Everything in life...

E B White: Everything in life...

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Source: 'One...

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E M Forster: Works of art,...

E M Forster: Works of art,...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why,...

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E M Forster: I distrust Great...

E M Forster: I distrust Great...

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel...

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George Eliot: Wear a smile...

George Eliot: Wear a smile...

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less...

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George Eliot: Our passions do...

George Eliot: Our passions do...

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...

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George Eliot: There are some...

George Eliot: There are some...

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them...

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