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Mark Twain: We never become...

Mark Twain: We never become...

We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been...

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Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it...

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G K Chesterton: Courage is almost...

G K Chesterton: Courage is almost...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to...

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G K Chesterton: Education is the...

G K Chesterton: Education is the...

Education is the period during which I was being instructed by somebody I did not know, about something I did not want...

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G K Chesterton: The world will...

G K Chesterton: The world will...

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

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G K Chesterton: There are many...

G K Chesterton: There are many...

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does...

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G K Chesterton: What people call...

G K Chesterton: What people call...

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental...

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G K Chesterton: The Museum is...

G K Chesterton: The Museum is...

The Museum is not meant for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the...

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G K Chesterton: Man does not...

G K Chesterton: Man does not...

Man does not live by soap alone, and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of...

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G K Chesterton: Mankind is not...

G K Chesterton: Mankind is not...

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our...

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Mark Twain: When a man's...

Mark Twain: When a man's...

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to...

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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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Margot Asquith: It is always...

Margot Asquith: It is always...

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Illusions are art,...

Elizabeth Bowen: Illusions are art,...

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

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Jessamyn West: Talent is helpful...

Jessamyn West: Talent is helpful...

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Source: In Words...

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Jerome K Jerome: But there, everything...

Jerome K Jerome: But there, everything...

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for...

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Honore de Balzac: One exits with...

Honore de Balzac: One exits with...

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

Source: In Webster's...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Source:...

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Henry David Thoreau: We do not...

Henry David Thoreau: We do not...

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse...

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G K Chesterton: All conservatism is...

G K Chesterton: All conservatism is...

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If...

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