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Katherine Mansfield: The mind I...

Katherine Mansfield: The mind I...

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown...

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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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Ayn Rand: Money demands that...

Ayn Rand: Money demands that...

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their...

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Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.

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Colette: Look for a...

Colette: Look for a...

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

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Jessamyn West: It is easy...

Jessamyn West: It is easy...

It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your...

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William McFee: People don't ever...

William McFee: People don't ever...

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against...

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Ian Fleming: A woman should...

Ian Fleming: A woman should...

A woman should be an illusion.

Source: Life of Ian Fleming, by John Pearson.
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R S Surtees: Three things I...

R S Surtees: Three things I...

Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.

Source: Hillingdon...

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R S Surtees: He was a...

R S Surtees: He was a...

He was a gentleman who was generally spoken of as having nothing a-year, paid quarterly.

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Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

Elias Canetti: The self-explorer, whether...

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but...

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Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

Elias Canetti: The profoundest thoughts...

The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something trickle about them. A lot disappears in order for...

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Aesop: Thinking to get...

Aesop: Thinking to get...

Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find -...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

I do not know why Diogenes * went looking for a man: nothing could happen to him worse than finding...

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John Selden: In quoting of...

John Selden: In quoting of...

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not...

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Clarence Darrow: Just think of...

Clarence Darrow: Just think of...

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Nader: Sanctions against polluters...

Ralph Nader: Sanctions against polluters...

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and, in any case, are rarely...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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Maria Edgeworth: An orator is...

Maria Edgeworth: An orator is...

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact . . .

Source: Harrington, ch....

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A E Housman: A neck God...

A E Housman: A neck God...

A neck God made for other use
Than strangling in a string.


Source: A Shropshire...

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