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Trent Zelazny

Quote from Trent Zelazny

Art is art. You can take it or leave it. Liking it or not liking it does not make you a better person, and who you like or dislike results in the same thing.

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Mark Twain Speeches

Quote from Mark Twain, Speeches

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

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Henry David Thoreau Life Without Principle

Quote from Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

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Quote from Amit Kalantri

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

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Quote from Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

Do you like to slide?” His voice was eager.Stair rails! Did he suspect me? I forced a sigh. “No, Majesty. I’m terrified of heights.””Oh.” His polite tone had returned.”I wish I could enjoy it. This fear of heights is an affliction.”He nodded, a show of sympathy but not much interest. I was losing him.”Especially,” I added, “as I’ve grown taller.

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Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

Quote from Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer

Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no fibs.

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P.G. Wodehouse The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

Quote from P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

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Mark Twain

Quote from Mark Twain, Christian Science

Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

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Blaise Pascal The Provincial Letters

Quote from Blaise Pascal, The Provincial Letters

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”, 1657)

Quote from Edwin Markham

He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem ” Outwitted

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