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Kingsley Amis: Feeling a tremendous...

Kingsley Amis: Feeling a tremendous...

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself...

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Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: An artist has...

Friedrich Nietzsche: An artist has...

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Jean Paul: Humankind's chief fault...

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Source: In The...

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Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Michael Crichton: Scientific power is...

Scientific power is like inherited wealth; attained without discipline. You read about what others have done, and you...

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J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

J B S Haldane: Cancer's a Funny...

Cancer's a Funny Thing:
I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is nothing...

Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is nothing...

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Source: In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E....

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Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the...

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

Source: In Correct...

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Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

Charles A Beard: The bee fertilizes...

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

Source: Four Lessons of History, in Readers'...

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One of the...

One of the...

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and...

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To be always...

To be always...

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating...

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The master of...

The master of...

The master of a single trade can support a family. The master of seven trades cannot support himself. The wind is...

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Wit is the...

Wit is the...

Wit is the unexpected explosion of thought.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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The human species,...

The human species,...

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who...

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Borrowers of books...

Borrowers of books...

Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd...

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I have passed...

I have passed...

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you...

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Reading is to...

Reading is to...

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties...

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You must learn...

You must learn...

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...

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Bread that must...

Bread that must...

Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.

Source:...

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