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Winston Churchill: Writing a book...

Winston Churchill: Writing a book...

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a...

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Winston Churchill: You may try...

Winston Churchill: You may try...

You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.

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Winston Churchill: Courage is rightly...

Winston Churchill: Courage is rightly...

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all...

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Winston Churchill: I never worry...

Winston Churchill: I never worry...

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Winston Churchill: Wars are not...

Winston Churchill: Wars are not...

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Source: Referring to Dunkirk. Their Finest...

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Winston Churchill: In defeat unbeatable;...

Winston Churchill: In defeat unbeatable;...

In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.

Source: Referring to Viscount...

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Winston Churchill: It is a...

Winston Churchill: It is a...

It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be...

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Winston Churchill: I can think...

Winston Churchill: I can think...

I can think of no better step to signalize the inauguration of the National Health service than that a person who so...

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Winston Churchill: He is a...

Winston Churchill: He is a...

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Source: Remark on...

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Winston Churchill: Jellicoe was the...

Winston Churchill: Jellicoe was the...

Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.

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Winston Churchill: Some people's idea...

Winston Churchill: Some people's idea...

Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back,...

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Charles Dickens: It's always best...

Charles Dickens: It's always best...

It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass....

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Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Mark Twain: Name the greatest...

Name the greatest of all the inventors. Accident.

Source: Notebook, 1935.
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Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

Mark Twain: A big leather-bound...

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Source: In...

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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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Mark Twain: By hard, honest...

Mark Twain: By hard, honest...

By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three...

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Mark Twain: Adam was but...

Mark Twain: Adam was but...

Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because...

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Mark Twain: Fortune knocks at...

Mark Twain: Fortune knocks at...

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and...

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Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing...

Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing...

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Source: Pudd'nhead...

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