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Famous quotes by Writers

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
H. L. Mencken
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"To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
J.B. Priestley
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"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - This is happiness"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
J.B. Priestley
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
J.B. Priestley
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"She was a handsome woman of forty-five, and would remain so for many years"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
J.B. Priestley
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"I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
J.B. Priestley
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"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
Dr. Seuss
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"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot"
Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer
Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so"
Douglas Adams, Writer
Douglas Adams
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"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen"
Douglas Adams, Writer
Douglas Adams
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"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
Elbert Hubbard
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"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
Elbert Hubbard
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"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
Elbert Hubbard
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"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion"
Thomas Paine, Writer
Thomas Paine
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"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him"
Jonathan Swift, Writer
Jonathan Swift
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
William S. Burroughs
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"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
William S. Burroughs
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"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy"
Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer
Ursula K. Le Guin
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"He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
William Edward Hickson
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"The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
Robert Louis Stevenson
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"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
Robert A. Heinlein
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"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
Robert A. Heinlein
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"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
Robert A. Heinlein
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"Each of us bears his own Hell"
Virgil, Writer
Virgil
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"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition"
Eli Khamarov, Writer
Eli Khamarov
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"Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief"
Jane Austen, Writer
Jane Austen
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