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Susan Sontag: The problems of...

Susan Sontag: The problems of...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

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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: The beginning of...

George Eliot: The beginning of...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Source: Felix Holt,...

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: Perhaps the most...

George Eliot: Perhaps the most...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more...

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George Eliot: Genius at first...

George Eliot: Genius at first...

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

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George Eliot: People who can't...

George Eliot: People who can't...

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

Source:...

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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: 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: A lady's imagination...

Jane Austen: A lady's imagination...

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a...

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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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Beah Richards: Both class and...

Beah Richards: Both class and...

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: North and South...

Rebecca Harding Davis: North and South...

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to...

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Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Source: In Webster's...

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Helen Keller: Literature is my...

Helen Keller: Literature is my...

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of...

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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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Fran Lebowitz: The telephone is...

Fran Lebowitz: The telephone is...

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

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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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Erma Bombeck: Next to hot...

Erma Bombeck: Next to hot...

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most...

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