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Edgar Watson Howe: A theory is...

Edgar Watson Howe: A theory is...

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Source: In The...

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Edgar Watson Howe: You can't do...

Edgar Watson Howe: You can't do...

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very...

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Edgar Watson Howe: Families with babies...

Edgar Watson Howe: Families with babies...

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.

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Edgar Watson Howe: To know when...

Edgar Watson Howe: To know when...

To know when to be generous and when firm -- this is wisdom.

Source: The...

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G K Chesterton: The way to...

G K Chesterton: The way to...

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Source: In Correct...

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Daniel Boorstin: I write to...

Daniel Boorstin: I write to...

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

Maxine Hong Kingston: To me success...

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...

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Alvin Toffler: The illiterate of...

Alvin Toffler: The illiterate of...

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to...

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Honore de Balzac: The more one...

Honore de Balzac: The more one...

The more one judges, the less one loves.

Source: In Wisdom of the Ages at Your...

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Lydia M Child: Every human being...

Lydia M Child: Every human being...

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...

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Eudora Welty: Writers and travelers...

Eudora Welty: Writers and travelers...

Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

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W C Sellar: Gladstone spent his...

W C Sellar: Gladstone spent his...

Gladstone spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was...

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Enid Bagnold: A father is...

Enid Bagnold: A father is...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back...

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Thomas Hardy: Everybody is so...

Thomas Hardy: Everybody is so...

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honour as deserving real distinction are those who...

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Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Emily Bronte: Proud people breed...

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. [Nelly, in Wuthering Heights]

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Gore Vidal: I like the...

Gore Vidal: I like the...

I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.

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Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

Francois Mauriac: A good critic...

A good critic is the sorcerer that makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our...

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Dorothy Miller Richardson: The question was...

Dorothy Miller Richardson: The question was...

The question was not how to get a job, but how to live by such jobs as I could get.

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John Barth: The Bible is...

John Barth: The Bible is...

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Source: In The...

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