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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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Peggy Noonan: If you commit...

Peggy Noonan: If you commit...

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you...

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Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Source: In...

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Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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Susan Sontag: One set of...

Susan Sontag: One set of...

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse...

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Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all...

Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up...

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Jane Austen: It will, I...

Jane Austen: It will, I...

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of...

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Annie Dillard: It could be...

Annie Dillard: It could be...

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of...

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P D James: There comes a...

P D James: There comes a...

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Nadine Gordimer: Truth isn't always...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Source: A Bolter and the...

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George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3, 1868.
-- George...

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George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

George Eliot: A woman's hopes...

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

Source: 'Felix...

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George Eliot: Plainness has its...

George Eliot: Plainness has its...

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: It is easy...

George Eliot: It is easy...

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Source: In Webster's...

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Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

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Shirley Temple Black: Won't the new...

Shirley Temple Black: Won't the new...

Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many...

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Emily Dickinson: I hope you...

Emily Dickinson: I hope you...

I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.

Source:...

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Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Emily Dickinson: Tis sweet to...

Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with Daisies lie --
That Commerce will continue --
And...

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Emily Dickinson: They say God...

Emily Dickinson: They say God...

They say God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

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Judith Jamison: So many people...

Judith Jamison: So many people...

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to...

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