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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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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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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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Rita Mae Brown: Good judgment comes...

Rita Mae Brown: Good judgment comes...

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

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Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

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Katharine Hepburn: If you obey...

Katharine Hepburn: If you obey...

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Emily Dickinson: If I read...

Emily Dickinson: If I read...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is...

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Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

Emily Dickinson: A letter always...

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal...

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Fran Lebowitz: Great people talk...

Fran Lebowitz: Great people talk...

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about...

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Erma Bombeck: I am not...

Erma Bombeck: I am not...

I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Susan Sontag: Boredom is just...

Susan Sontag: Boredom is just...

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one...

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Susan Sontag: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Susan Sontag: Unfortunately, moral beauty...

Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so...

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Rita Mae Brown: Recognition of function...

Rita Mae Brown: Recognition of function...

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Source: Starting from...

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George Eliot: She was no...

George Eliot: She was no...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in...

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George Eliot: Few women, I...

George Eliot: Few women, I...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake...

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George Eliot: It is, I...

George Eliot: It is, I...

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a...

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George Eliot: I've never any...

George Eliot: I've never any...

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with...

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Jane Austen: An engaged woman...

Jane Austen: An engaged woman...

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and...

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Jane Austen: From this day...

Jane Austen: From this day...

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not...

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