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George Eliot: No story is...

George Eliot: No story is...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Source: Uncle Tom's...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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-- Mary...

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Madeleine L'Engle: We can't take...

Madeleine L'Engle: We can't take...

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Source:...

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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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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: 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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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I am speaking...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred -- that of keeping their own...

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P D James: God gives every...

P D James: God gives every...

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Source:...

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P D James: Jealousy, he thought,...

P D James: Jealousy, he thought,...

Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, the restlessness...

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George Eliot: In all private...

George Eliot: In all private...

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder...

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George Eliot: Human beings must...

George Eliot: Human beings must...

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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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: Jealousy is never...

George Eliot: Jealousy is never...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the...

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Jane Austen: Single women have...

Jane Austen: Single women have...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...

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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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Helen Keller: We can do...

Helen Keller: We can do...

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Source: In Webster's...

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Dorothy Parker: . . ....

Dorothy Parker: . . ....

. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will...

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Susan Sontag: Existence is no...

Susan Sontag: Existence is no...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and...

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