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George Eliot: But most of...

George Eliot: But most of...

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...

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George Eliot: More helpful than...

George Eliot: More helpful than...

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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Jane Austen: In every power,...

Jane Austen: In every power,...

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the...

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Jane Austen: We met ....

Jane Austen: We met ....

We met . . . Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be...

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Susan B Anthony: I can see...

Susan B Anthony: I can see...

I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now...

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Susan Sontag: Fewer and fewer...

Susan Sontag: Fewer and fewer...

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used...

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Susan Sontag: Much of modern...

Susan Sontag: Much of modern...

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we...

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Susan Sontag: The problems of...

Susan Sontag: The problems of...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

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Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing...

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Susan Sontag: Though collecting quotations...

Susan Sontag: Though collecting quotations...

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were. ....

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Susan B Anthony: Oh, yes. I'd...

Susan B Anthony: Oh, yes. I'd...

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak....

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Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big...

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Good communication is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Good communication is...

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

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Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from...

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Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite...

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