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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: 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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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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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: 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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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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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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Maya Angelou: I believe that...

Maya Angelou: I believe that...

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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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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Emily Dickinson: Hope it strange...

Emily Dickinson: Hope it strange...

Hope it strange invention --
A Patent of the Heart --
In unremitting action
Yet never wearing...

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Jane Austen: There are certainly...

Jane Austen: There are certainly...

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve...

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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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George Eliot: Solomon's Proverbs, I...

George Eliot: Solomon's Proverbs, I...

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness...

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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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Louisa May Alcott: Let my name...

Louisa May Alcott: Let my name...

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some...

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Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to...

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Dorothy Parker: Scratch a king...

Dorothy Parker: Scratch a king...

Scratch a king and find a fool!

Source: Salome's Dancing-Lesson, St. 3; in Death...

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Fran Lebowitz: Don't bother discussing...

Fran Lebowitz: Don't bother discussing...

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.

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Fran Lebowitz: A salad is...

Fran Lebowitz: A salad is...

A salad is not a meal. It is a style.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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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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