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Henry W. Fowler
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
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Donald G. Smith
If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it.
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James Grover Thurber
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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H. L. Mencken
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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A. E. Housman
And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
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Hellen Keller
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
To me, there's no better symbol for the world than a grasshopper lying dead on a gravel road, and maybe there's a globe lying next to him.
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Hermann Hesse
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Kahlil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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Jacob August Riis
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
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Fred Allen
An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt.
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