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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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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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Helen Keller: The hands of...

Helen Keller: The hands of...

The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so...

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Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Dorothy Parker: Love is like...

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts...

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Susan Sontag: What pornography is...

Susan Sontag: What pornography is...

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.

Source: The...

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George Eliot: Speech is often...

George Eliot: Speech is often...

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...

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George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Source: Adam Bede.
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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: 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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Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the...

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Katharine Hepburn: . . ....

Katharine Hepburn: . . ....

. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't...

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Susan Sontag: Perversity is the...

Susan Sontag: Perversity is the...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Source: Against Interpretation,...

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Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...

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George Eliot: When death comes...

George Eliot: When death comes...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

George Eliot: Men's men: gentle...

Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Source: Mrs. Girdle, in...

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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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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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George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy,...

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is...

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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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