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When my enemies...

When my enemies...

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Source: In Maria Callas,...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Source: In Words of...

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Mark Twain: When a person...

Mark Twain: When a person...

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other...

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Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Anthony Powell: Growing old's like...

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

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Taylor Caldwell: Contrary to general...

Taylor Caldwell: Contrary to general...

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more...

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Robert E Lee: The education of...

Robert E Lee: The education of...

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

Pearl Buck: I don't wait...

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to...

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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Flannery O'Connor: Anybody who has...

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...

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Anatole France: Irony is the...

Anatole France: Irony is the...

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

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-- Anatole...

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Titus Livy: In difficult and...

Titus Livy: In difficult and...

In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest.

Source: In...

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Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I don't believe...

Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee: I don't believe...

I don't believe a committee can write a book . . . . It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can...

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A J P Taylor: We are apt...

A J P Taylor: We are apt...

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is...

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Theodore H White: When that book...

Theodore H White: When that book...

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and...

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Alice Paul: There will never...

Alice Paul: There will never...

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Source: In...

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Clarence Darrow: Laws should be...

Clarence Darrow: Laws should be...

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they serve.

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Albert Pike: Doubt [is] the...

Albert Pike: Doubt [is] the...

Doubt [is] the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery. The faculty of doubting and questioning . . ....

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J B S Haldane: Shelley and Keats...

J B S Haldane: Shelley and Keats...

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical...

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Richard Francis Burton: Reason is life's...

Richard Francis Burton: Reason is life's...

Reason is life's sole arbiter.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Desiderius Erasmus: It is an...

Desiderius Erasmus: It is an...

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

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