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Mark Twain: I am different...

Mark Twain: I am different...

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie,...

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Mark Twain: Honest poverty is...

Mark Twain: Honest poverty is...

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own, but I wish to sell...

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Mark Twain: Often, the less...

Mark Twain: Often, the less...

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of...

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Mary McCarthy: There are no...

Mary McCarthy: There are no...

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without...

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Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

Edward Dahlberg: One of the...

One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a...

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Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Edward Dahlberg: Men are mad...

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. . . . The acts of people are baffling unless we realize...

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Charles Dickens: I only ask...

Charles Dickens: I only ask...

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Source: 'Bleak House'
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Charles Dickens: It came like...

Charles Dickens: It came like...

It came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: I pass my...

Charles Dickens: I pass my...

I pass my whole life, miss, in turning an immense pecuniary Mangle.

Source: (Mr...

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Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Charles Dickens: Barkis is willin'....

Barkis is willin'.

Source: David Copperfield, Ch. 5
-- Charles Dickens, (Feb 7...

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James Thurber: Sixty minutes of...

James Thurber: Sixty minutes of...

Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.

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James Thurber: All men should...

James Thurber: All men should...

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and...

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George Eliot: Great feelings will...

George Eliot: Great feelings will...

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...

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George Eliot: Truth has rough...

George Eliot: Truth has rough...

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Source: Graf Dornberg, in Armgart,...

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George Eliot: Ignorance. . ....

George Eliot: Ignorance. . ....

Ignorance. . . is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with...

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George Eliot: An election is...

George Eliot: An election is...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...

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George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...

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George Eliot: A toddling little...

George Eliot: A toddling little...

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Hastiness and superficiality...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Hastiness and superficiality...

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this...

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