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Jawaharlal Nehru: Time is not...

Jawaharlal Nehru: Time is not...

Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one...

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Abraham Lincoln: Kindness is the...

Abraham Lincoln: Kindness is the...

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be...

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Annie Dillard: Every book has...

Annie Dillard: Every book has...

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement...

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Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

Jerome K Jerome: It is impossible...

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

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Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to...

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Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A great writer...

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great...

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Mark Twain: All scenery in...

Mark Twain: All scenery in...

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

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Mark Twain: I am prepared...

Mark Twain: I am prepared...

I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another...

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Mark Twain: I have been...

Mark Twain: I have been...

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said...

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Mark Twain: I find that...

Mark Twain: I find that...

I find that the further I go back, the better things, whether they happened or not.

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Mark Twain: I'll take Heaven...

Mark Twain: I'll take Heaven...

I'll take Heaven for the climate and Hell for society.

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Mark Twain: If to be...

Mark Twain: If to be...

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace...

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Mark Twain: In a museum...

Mark Twain: In a museum...

In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus -- 'one when he was a boy and one when he was a...

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Mark Twain: Kings is mostly...

Mark Twain: Kings is mostly...

Kings is mostly rapscallions.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30 1835-1910), US...

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Mark Twain: Let us so...

Mark Twain: Let us so...

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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Mark Twain: It is nobler...

Mark Twain: It is nobler...

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

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Mark Twain: It is by...

Mark Twain: It is by...

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,...

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Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

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-- Mark Twain, (Nov 30...

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Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Mark Twain: Prosperity is the...

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

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-- Mark Twain,...

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