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Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Louis Aragon: Fear of error...

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes...

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Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

Stephane Mallarme: The pure work...

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the...

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Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Caius Valerius Catullus: Suns may set...

Suns may set and rise again: for us, when our brief light has set, there's the sleep of one ever lasting night. Give...

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Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Francis Thompson: Summer set lip...

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.


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Jean de la Fontaine: This fellow did...

Jean de la Fontaine: This fellow did...

This fellow did not see further than his own nose.

Source: Fables, III, 'Le Renard...

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Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

Jean de la Fontaine: He told me...

He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Source:...

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Hesiod: Badness you can...

Hesiod: Badness you can...

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the...

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Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

Henry John Newbolt: He clapped the...

He clapped the glass to his sightless eye,
And 'I'm damned if I see it', he said.


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Robert Frost: A bank is...

Robert Frost: A bank is...

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to...

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Cary Grant: I pretended to...

Cary Grant: I pretended to...

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became...

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John Barrymore: When archaeologists discover...

John Barrymore: When archaeologists discover...

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing...

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John Barrymore: Happiness sneaks in...

John Barrymore: Happiness sneaks in...

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Source: In...

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Charles James Fox: The worst of...

Charles James Fox: The worst of...

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

Source: Speech, 10 Dec. 1785, to the...

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Antonio Gramsci: I'm a pessimist...

Antonio Gramsci: I'm a pessimist...

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Source:...

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James Callaghan: A lie can...

James Callaghan: A lie can...

A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.

Source:...

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Barbara Jordan: There is no...

Barbara Jordan: There is no...

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and...

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Jimmy Breslin: A job on...

Jimmy Breslin: A job on...

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down...

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Earl Nightingale: A great attitude...

Earl Nightingale: A great attitude...

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts...

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Earl Nightingale: The amount of...

Earl Nightingale: The amount of...

The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and...

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Cher: I won't be...

Cher: I won't be...

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old...

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