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Small: For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
Jane Austen, Writer
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Small: Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue
Virginia Woolf
"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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Small: I dont believe in astrology Im a Sagittarius and were skeptical
Arthur C. Clarke
"I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
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Small: How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean
Arthur C. Clarke
"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
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Small: Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you dont find out til too late that hes been playing with two
Terry Pratchett
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along"
Terry Pratchett, Author
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Small: I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy
Samuel Butler
"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy"
Samuel Butler, Poet
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Small: Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet
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Small: Gods gifts put mans best dreams to shame
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet
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Small: I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love
John Dyer
"I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love"
John Dyer, Artist
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Small: I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do
Christian Bale
"I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do"
Christian Bale, Actor
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Small: My hope is that people will be repulsed by the characters complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumeri
Christian Bale
"My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message"
Christian Bale, Actor
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Small: For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake
Alfred Hitchcock
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake"
Alfred Hitchcock, Director
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Small: The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people ve
"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks"
Lord Acton, Historian
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Small: All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution
Henry Ellis
"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution"
Henry Ellis, Psychologist
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Small: A man is literally what he thinks
"A man is literally what he thinks"
James Allen, Author
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Small: Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands
"Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands"
Robert Conquest, Historian
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Small: Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light
"Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light"
Ellis Peters, Author
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Small: The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing
"The best scheme of Phonetics is a stiff uncertain thing"
Thomas Edward Brown, Poet
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Small: It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour
W. Somerset Maugham
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences
W. Somerset Maugham
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: The writer is more concerned to know than to judge
W. Somerset Maugham
"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five
W. Somerset Maugham
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters
George Herbert
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters"
George Herbert, Poet
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Small: None knows the weight of anothers burden
George Herbert
"None knows the weight of another's burden"
George Herbert, Poet
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Small: Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power
Benjamin Disraeli
"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed
Benjamin Disraeli
"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: Diligence is the mother of good fortune
Benjamin Disraeli
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: Where knowledge ends, religion begins
Benjamin Disraeli
"Where knowledge ends, religion begins"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
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Small: Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves
Lord Byron
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron
"Friendship is Love without his wings!"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: Fame is the thirst of youth
Lord Byron
"Fame is the thirst of youth"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine
Lord Byron
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine"
Lord Byron, Poet
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Small: Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery
Bertrand Russell
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
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Small: The mere thought hadnt even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind
Douglas Adams
"The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind"
Douglas Adams, Writer
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Small: No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wo
Margaret Thatcher
"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
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Small: There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty
Margaret Thatcher
"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
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Small: A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us
Margaret Thatcher
"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us"
Margaret Thatcher, Leader
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Small: Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted th
J.B. Priestley
"Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of
J.B. Priestley
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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Small: Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it posse
J.B. Priestley
"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
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