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Small: If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words
E. M. Forster
"If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
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Small: The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not
"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology"
E. F. Schumacher, Economist
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Small: The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forget
"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is"
E. F. Schumacher, Economist
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Small: Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed
E. M. Forster
"Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
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Small: They that know no evil will suspect none
Ben Jonson
"They that know no evil will suspect none"
Ben Jonson, Poet
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Small: True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice
Ben Jonson
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice"
Ben Jonson, Poet
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Small: Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not
Ben Jonson
"Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not"
Ben Jonson, Poet
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Small: Fortune, that favors fools
Ben Jonson
"Fortune, that favors fools"
Ben Jonson, Poet
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Small: What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning
Charlie Chaplin
"What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
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Small: I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the per
Charlie Chaplin
"I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
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Small: I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man
Charlie Chaplin
"I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
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Small: Brunettes are troublemakers. Theyre worse than the Jews
Charlie Chaplin
"Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
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Small: A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure
Charlie Chaplin
"A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
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Small: Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons
"Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons"
Michael Caine, Actor
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Small: I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in th
Queen Elizabeth II
"I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity"
Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty
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Small: Grief is the price we pay for love
Queen Elizabeth II
"Grief is the price we pay for love"
Queen Elizabeth II, Royalty
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Small: I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end o
Robert Browning
"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time"
Robert Browning, Poet
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Small: I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by Go
Robert Browning
"I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God"
Robert Browning, Poet
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Small: Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing
Charlie Chaplin
"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing"
Charlie Chaplin, Actor
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Small: No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth
"No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth"
Ellen Terry, Actress
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Small: Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violenc
Joseph Addison
"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations
Joseph Addison
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Ye
Joseph Addison
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think a
"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"
Ellen Terry, Actress
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Small: There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obe
"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is"
Ellen Terry, Actress
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Small: What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others
"What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others"
William Golding, Novelist
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Small: Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agr
Joseph Addison
"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket
"Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket"
William Golding, Novelist
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Small: Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart
"Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart"
Robert South, Clergyman
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Small: Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week
Joseph Addison
"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life
Joseph Addison
"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to gene
Joseph Addison
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal aut
Joseph Addison
"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority"
Joseph Addison, Writer
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Small: Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those
"Having decisions made not in midnight deals but in the light of objective evidence and after consulting those who will be affected should itself provide some reassurance that the EU is trying to reform itself"
John Hutton, Educator
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Small: For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable
Mary Astell
"For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being"
Mary Astell, Writer
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Small: Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragemen
Mary Astell
"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it"
Mary Astell, Writer
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Small: Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to
"Here in the UK the government has decided to accept the recommendations of the Better Regulation Task Force to measure and make targeted reductions in the administrative costs - the red tape costs - that regulations impose on business"
John Hutton, Educator
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Small: Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can
"Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously"
John Hutton, Educator
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Small: If we took Chaucers writings at face value, wed have to conclude he was a complete drip
"If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip"
John Hutton, Educator
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Small: Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are
Mary Astell
"Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it"
Mary Astell, Writer
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