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George Eliot: It is generally...

George Eliot: It is generally...

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of...

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George Eliot: Among all forms...

George Eliot: Among all forms...

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Source: Middlemarch,...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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: 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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Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

Madeleine L'Engle: When the bright...

When the bright angel [of creativity] dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven...

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

Madeleine L'Engle: She seems to...

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in...

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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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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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Susan Sontag: Jews and homosexuals...

Susan Sontag: Jews and homosexuals...

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the...

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Helen Keller: I thank God...

Helen Keller: I thank God...

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

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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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Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Source: Speech to...

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