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Mark Twain: The only way...

Mark Twain: The only way...

The only way to stay healthy is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather...

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Mark Twain: There are lies,...

Mark Twain: There are lies,...

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Mark Twain: There is a...

Mark Twain: There is a...

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: To succeed in...

Mark Twain: To succeed in...

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will...

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Mark Twain: We have a...

Mark Twain: We have a...

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the...

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Mark Twain: To be busy...

Mark Twain: To be busy...

To be busy is man's only happiness.

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

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E B White: Whatever else an...

E B White: Whatever else an...

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of...

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George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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George Eliot: This is a...

George Eliot: This is a...

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver,...

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Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

Edward Dahlberg: The machine has...

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce...

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Edward Dahlberg: We are always...

Edward Dahlberg: We are always...

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild,...

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Charles Dickens: There is a...

Charles Dickens: There is a...

There is a dread disease which so prepares its victim, as it were, for death . . . a disease in which death and life...

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Charles Dickens: It's my opinion,...

Charles Dickens: It's my opinion,...

It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is drunk.

Source: Pickwick Papers, Ch....

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Charles Dickens: A smattering of...

Charles Dickens: A smattering of...

A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing.

Source: Sketches by Boz,...

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Charles Dickens: The question about...

Charles Dickens: The question about...

The question about everything was, would it bring a blush to the cheek of a young person?

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Charles Dickens: Poetry's unnat'ral; no...

Charles Dickens: Poetry's unnat'ral; no...

Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: Evil comes at...

G K Chesterton: Evil comes at...

Evil comes at leisure like the disease; good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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G K Chesterton: White. . ....

G K Chesterton: White. . ....

White. . . is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as...

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G K Chesterton: Your next-door neighbour....

G K Chesterton: Your next-door neighbour....

Your next-door neighbour. . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a...

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G K Chesterton: To be clever...

G K Chesterton: To be clever...

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

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