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A random selection of fabulous
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John Philpot Curran
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
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Wally Lamb
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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Steven Wright
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
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Ellis Peters
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
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Richard Bach
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
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George Crabbe
Habit with him was all the test of truth, It must be right I've done it from my youth.
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Juvenal
Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.
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Ring Lardner
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
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Ulysses S. Grant
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution.
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Marquis de Flers Robert
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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Su Shih
My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know.
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African Proverb
Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
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