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Maya Angelou: We may encounter...

Maya Angelou: We may encounter...

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Susan Sontag: That even an...

Susan Sontag: That even an...

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled...

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Anita Loos: Today there are...

Anita Loos: Today there are...

Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of...

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George Eliot: To act with...

George Eliot: To act with...

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved...

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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: Truth has rough...

George Eliot: Truth has rough...

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Source: Graf Dornberg, in Armgart,...

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George Eliot: Life is too...

George Eliot: Life is too...

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...

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Jane Austen: It is very...

Jane Austen: It is very...

It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble.

Source: 'Emma' [Cf....

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Jane Austen: It is always...

Jane Austen: It is always...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with...

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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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Helen Rowland: Between lovers a...

Helen Rowland: Between lovers a...

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Source: Reflections of a...

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Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

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Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Every child was...

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. As he grew...

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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: Nature, like us...

Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Nature, like us is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.


Source: The Complete...

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Emily Dickinson: We never know...

Emily Dickinson: We never know...

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise.
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures...

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Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Luck is not chance --
It's toil --
Fortune's expensive smile Is earned.


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Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a...

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