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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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Emily Dickinson: My only sketch,...

Emily Dickinson: My only sketch,...

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June -- and in it...

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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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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 Sontag: With the modern...

Susan Sontag: With the modern...

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is...

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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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Rebecca Harding Davis: One sees that...

Rebecca Harding Davis: One sees that...

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of...

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Helen Keller: To keep our...

Helen Keller: To keep our...

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength...

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Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Somebody was using the pencil.

Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...

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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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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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Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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Helen Rowland: One man's folly...

Helen Rowland: One man's folly...

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Source: Reflections of a Bachelor Girl...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: These great turning-days...

Rebecca Harding Davis: These great turning-days...

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the...

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Dorothy Parker: There was never...

Dorothy Parker: There was never...

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...

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Maya Angelou: Listen carefully to...

Maya Angelou: Listen carefully to...

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of...

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Fran Lebowitz: You can't go...

Fran Lebowitz: You can't go...

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people...

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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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Erma Bombeck: It goes without...

Erma Bombeck: It goes without...

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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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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