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FRANK's Components of Creativity
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think...
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. More about this quote...
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races: the men who...
This is my motto: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.Source: In Correct...
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.Source: Letter to Bernard...
Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd...
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the...
Presents, I often say, endear absents.Source: Essays of Elia, A Dissertation Upon...
We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.Source: In The...
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I...
I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you...
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of...
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute...
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by...
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.Source: English Wits, L. Russell.--...
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a...
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about...
The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street. More about this quote...
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other. More about this quote...
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed....
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