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George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

George Eliot: In the schoolroom...

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts...

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George Eliot: He was like...

George Eliot: He was like...

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Source: Adam...

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: An election is...

George Eliot: An election is...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...

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Jane Austen: Friendship is the...

Jane Austen: Friendship is the...

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Source: In An...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I sometimes give...

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Source:...

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Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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Emily Dickinson: If I can...

Emily Dickinson: If I can...

If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one...

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Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...

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Emily Dickinson: Some keep the...

Emily Dickinson: Some keep the...

Some keep the Sabbath going to Church --
I keep it, staying at Home --
With a Bobolink for a Chorister --
And...

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Emily Dickinson: His Labor is...

Emily Dickinson: His Labor is...

His Labor is a Chant --
His Idleness --a Tune --
Oh, for a Bee's experience
Of Clovers, and of...

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Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should...

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Mae West: My advice to...

Mae West: My advice to...

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to...

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Katharine Hepburn: As for me,...

Katharine Hepburn: As for me,...

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Source: Higham's 'Kate',...

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Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Everything has it wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest...

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Helen Keller: When we do...

Helen Keller: When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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Dorothy Parker: Excuse my dust....

Dorothy Parker: Excuse my dust....

Excuse my dust.

Source: Alternative epitaph; in While Rome Burns, Our Mrs. Parker...

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Dorothy Parker: Check enclosed....

Dorothy Parker: Check enclosed....

Check enclosed.

Source: Giving her version of the two most beautiful words in the...

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Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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