Category: writer
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
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I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.
Charles Dickens
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You probably don’t need more weapons than what’s required to destroy every city on earth. There’s only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons – well, we’ve got more than 25,000!
Carl Sagan
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A husband who submits to his wife’s yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman’s influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore de Balzac
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The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
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The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
Voltaire
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The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.
Stephen King
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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain
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receive everything in your life based on what you’ve given.
Rhonda Byrne