Category: writer
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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
Voltaire
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
Samuel Beckett
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
C. S. Lewis
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It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
Helen Keller
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
Paulo Coelho