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Helen Rowland: The follies which...

Helen Rowland: The follies which...

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the...

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Jane Austen: Every man is...

Jane Austen: Every man is...

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.

Source: In The...

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Rita Mae Brown: Show me a...

Rita Mae Brown: Show me a...

Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Women are the real architects of society.

Source: In Atlantic Monthly, 1864.
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George Eliot: I'm proof against...

George Eliot: I'm proof against...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving...

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Eleanor H Porter: You breathe all...

Eleanor H Porter: You breathe all...

You breathe all the time you're sleep, but you aren't living. I mean living -- doing the things you want to do . . . ....

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Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Source: From a collection...

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Helen Rowland: To make a...

Helen Rowland: To make a...

To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is misunderstood or...

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Dorothy Parker: That woman speaks...

Dorothy Parker: That woman speaks...

That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say No in any of them.

Source: Said...

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Susan Sontag: The taste for...

Susan Sontag: The taste for...

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist...

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Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of...

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Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their...

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Susan B Anthony: Sooner or later...

Susan B Anthony: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the...

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Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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Susan Sontag: The quality of...

Susan Sontag: The quality of...

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of American space,...

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George Eliot: Whether happiness may...

George Eliot: Whether happiness may...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

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George Eliot: Quarrel? Nonsense;...

George Eliot: Quarrel? Nonsense;...

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...

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George Eliot: Might, could, would...

George Eliot: Might, could, would...

Might, could, would -- they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Source: Mary Garth, in...

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George Eliot: This is a...

George Eliot: This is a...

This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it.

Source: Mr. Tulliver,...

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George Eliot: Nothing is so...

George Eliot: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Source: Silas Marner, 1861
-- George...

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