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W. Somerset Maugham
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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Channing Pollock
He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side.
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Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
It is better to be envied than pitied.
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Ursala Lequin
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....
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Witold Gombrowicz
Do you want to know who you are Don't ask. Act Action will delineate and define you.
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Cicero
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Katherine Mansfield
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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Charles Sumner
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
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Lillian Hellman
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
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Lord Byron
And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.
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Edward P. Tryon
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
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Chester Bowles
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
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