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Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Source: Social...

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Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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George Eliot: Is it not...

George Eliot: Is it not...

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and...

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George Eliot: Hostesses who entertain...

George Eliot: Hostesses who entertain...

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than...

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George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...

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George Eliot: Each thought is...

George Eliot: Each thought is...

Each thought is a nail that is driven
In structures that cannot decay;
And the mansion at last will be...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...

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George Eliot: The sons of...

George Eliot: The sons of...

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice,...

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Jane Austen: One cannot have...

Jane Austen: One cannot have...

One cannot have too large a party.

Source: 'Emma'
-- Jane Austen, (Dec 16...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

Helen Hunt Jackson: That indescribable expression...

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...

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Rita Mae Brown: Don't ask to...

Rita Mae Brown: Don't ask to...

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.

Source:...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We travellers are...

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is the...

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above...

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George Eliot: One soweth and...

George Eliot: One soweth and...

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

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George Eliot: Oh may I...

George Eliot: Oh may I...

Oh may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their...

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George Eliot: It's them as...

George Eliot: It's them as...

It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.

Source: Mrs. Poyser,...

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