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Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

Richard Bach: What the caterpillar...

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

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Edward Dahlberg: Every decision you...

Edward Dahlberg: Every decision you...

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Edward Dahlberg: One cat in...

Edward Dahlberg: One cat in...

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.

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Edward Dahlberg: What has a...

Edward Dahlberg: What has a...

What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or...

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Edward Dahlberg: We cannot live,...

Edward Dahlberg: We cannot live,...

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be...

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Anthony Burgess: We all need...

Anthony Burgess: We all need...

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Source: In Face, (London),...

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Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

Charles Dickens: The bearings of...

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Source: (Bunsby)...

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Charles Dickens: I only ask...

Charles Dickens: I only ask...

I only ask for information.

Source: (Rosa Dartle) David Copperfield, Ch. 20
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Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

Charles Dickens: I'm Gormed -...

I'm Gormed - and I can't say no fairer than that!

Source: (Mr Peggotty) David...

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Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Charles Dickens: Mrs Jellyby was...

Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa.

Source: Bleak House, Ch. 23
--...

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George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...

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George Eliot: But human experience...

George Eliot: But human experience...

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current...

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George Eliot: There is much...

George Eliot: There is much...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the...

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George Eliot: In the multitude...

George Eliot: In the multitude...

In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the...

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George Eliot: It is easy...

George Eliot: It is easy...

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: The golden moments...

George Eliot: The golden moments...

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we...

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George Eliot: It will never...

George Eliot: It will never...

It will never rain roses; when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

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George Eliot: Failure after long...

George Eliot: Failure after long...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...

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Jane Austen: You have delighted...

Jane Austen: You have delighted...

You have delighted us long enough.

Source: Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 18
-- Jane...

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Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Richard Bach: Jonathan is that...

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach...

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