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Emily Dickinson: The distance that...

Emily Dickinson: The distance that...

The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear --
Their coming back seems possible
For many an...

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Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Source: It's Time for...

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George Eliot: An egotist is...

George Eliot: An egotist is...

An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My...

George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My...

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the...

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George Eliot: Of a truth,...

George Eliot: Of a truth,...

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may...

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George Eliot: There is nothing...

George Eliot: There is nothing...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...

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Jane Austen: Where so many...

Jane Austen: Where so many...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be...

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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Barbara Cartland: We romantic writers...

Barbara Cartland: We romantic writers...

We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where...

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George Eliot: No evil dooms...

George Eliot: No evil dooms...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape...

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Anita Loos: I really think...

Anita Loos: I really think...

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very, very...

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Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a...

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Grace Paley: All that is...

Grace Paley: All that is...

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or...

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Gail Hamilton: What's virtue in...

Gail Hamilton: What's virtue in...

What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.

Source: Both Sides.
-- Gail...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Show me one...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Show me one...

Show me one who boasts continually of his openness, and I will show you one who conceals...

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Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want...

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Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....

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