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Fran Lebowitz: Radio news is...

Fran Lebowitz: Radio news is...

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed...

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Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Everything has it wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be...

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Helen Keller: I don't want...

Helen Keller: I don't want...

I don't want peace that passeth understanding, I want understanding which bringeth peace.

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest...

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Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Dorothy Parker: Those who have...

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite...

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Dorothy Parker: Men don't like...

Dorothy Parker: Men don't like...

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility...

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Dorothy Parker: House Beautiful' is...

Dorothy Parker: House Beautiful' is...

'House Beautiful' is the play lousy.

Source: Theater review.
-- Dorothy Parker,...

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Nancy Friday: It was the...

Nancy Friday: It was the...

It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that...

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Susan B Anthony: Modern invention has...

Susan B Anthony: Modern invention has...

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different...

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Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Where painting is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Where painting is...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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P D James: God gives every...

P D James: God gives every...

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

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George Eliot: The desire to...

George Eliot: The desire to...

The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.

Source: Daniel Deronda, bk....

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George Eliot: Life is measured...

George Eliot: Life is measured...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...

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George Eliot: An egotist is...

George Eliot: An egotist is...

An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.

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George Eliot: Abroad, that large...

George Eliot: Abroad, that large...

Abroad, that large home of ruined reputations.

Source: Felix Holt, Epilogue...

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George Eliot: You have such...

George Eliot: You have such...

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem...

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George Eliot: There is nothing...

George Eliot: There is nothing...

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but...

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