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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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P D James: Metaphysical speculation is...

P D James: Metaphysical speculation is...

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for...

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George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

George Eliot: Ignorance gives one...

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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Jane Austen: An egg boiled...

Jane Austen: An egg boiled...

An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome.

Source: (Mr Woodhouse) Emma, Ch....

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Jane Austen: I am afraid...

Jane Austen: I am afraid...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...

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Susan Sontag: He who despises...

Susan Sontag: He who despises...

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: Death Kit,...

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Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less...

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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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Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...

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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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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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Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Erma Bombeck: The grass is...

Erma Bombeck: The grass is...

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Source: From Charades, an...

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Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...

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Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and...

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Judy Collins: I think people...

Judy Collins: I think people...

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must...

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Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...

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Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...

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