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Charles Dickens: Did you ever...

Charles Dickens: Did you ever...

Did you ever taste beer?''I had a sip of it once,' said the small servant. 'Here's a state of things!' cried Mr...

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George Eliot: To act with...

George Eliot: To act with...

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved...

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George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

George Eliot: Perspective, as its...

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish,...

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George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...

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George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate...

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George Eliot: A woman's heart...

George Eliot: A woman's heart...

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness...

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G K Chesterton: Education is simply...

G K Chesterton: Education is simply...

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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G K Chesterton: They haven't got...

G K Chesterton: They haven't got...

They haven't got no noses
The fallen sons of Eve;
Even the smell of roses
Is not what they supposes;
But...

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G K Chesterton: `The Christian ideal,'...

G K Chesterton: `The Christian ideal,'...

`The Christian ideal,' it is said, `has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left...

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G K Chesterton: The average man...

G K Chesterton: The average man...

The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with...

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George Eliot: More helpful than...

George Eliot: More helpful than...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Source: Speech, 1972.
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Richard Bach: Every person, all...

Richard Bach: Every person, all...

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them...

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Peter De Vries: You can make...

Peter De Vries: You can make...

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the...

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Jean Paul: Cares are often...

Jean Paul: Cares are often...

Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former...

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Jean Paul: Without God there...

Jean Paul: Without God there...

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every...

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James Thurber: A pinch of...

James Thurber: A pinch of...

A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Christopher Morley: Simplicity of character...

Christopher Morley: Simplicity of character...

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Source: In...

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Salman Rushdie: Doubt, it seems...

Salman Rushdie: Doubt, it seems...

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

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Edward Dahlberg: The ancients understood...

Edward Dahlberg: The ancients understood...

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

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