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Mark Twain: The Christian's Bible...

Mark Twain: The Christian's Bible...

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice...

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Mark Twain: There are people...

Mark Twain: There are people...

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happinesses to the...

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Mark Twain: The rule is...

Mark Twain: The rule is...

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

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Aesop: The unhappy derive...

Aesop: The unhappy derive...

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Source: Referring to her husband. As I...

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Pearl Buck: When hope is...

Pearl Buck: When hope is...

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Elizabeth Bowen: Meeting people unlike...

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is...

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Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a...

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Jerome K Jerome: Some people are...

Jerome K Jerome: Some people are...

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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Honore de Balzac: There is no...

Honore de Balzac: There is no...

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will-power.

Source: La Muse...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Youth is not...

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Source: Samples...

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Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a...

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Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Anatole France: Never lend books,...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have...

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Dean Acheson: I will undoubtedly...

Dean Acheson: I will undoubtedly...

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe...

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Winston Churchill: Men will forgive...

Winston Churchill: Men will forgive...

Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

Source: Election speech,...

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Winston Churchill: If you have...

Winston Churchill: If you have...

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Source: In The...

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Winston Churchill: It is more...

Winston Churchill: It is more...

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Source: In The...

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Winston Churchill: One does not...

Winston Churchill: One does not...

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Source: Responding to...

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