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Even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.
Ella Winter
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To a prison visitor who asked if he were sewing:
No, reaping.
Horatio Bottomley
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The Book of Nature is issued only in uncut editions, and the scientist has to open its pages one by one as he reads.
Edwin Slosson
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The real us present, and it is transfigured... It is everywhere a reality at once immutable and changing. Matter is present, submitted to a luminous phantasmagoria. What Monet paints is the space that exists between himself and things.
Gustave Geffroy
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Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.
Max O'Rell
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Beloved Scotland of the winter and the hills! 'Tis little that thou'lt get from them, but they will make thee hard and brave!
Neil Munro
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A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.
Irving Bacheller
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The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.
William Cowper Brann
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Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout.
Arthur Morrison
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I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
Damon Runyon
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Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
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The air currents of the world never ventilated his mind.
Walter Hines Page
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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
Allan Nevins
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I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
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Fatherhood, for me, has been less a job than an unstable and surprising combination of adventure, blindman's bluff, guerilla warfare, and crossword puzzle.
Frederic Franklyn Van de Water
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The Kingdom of God is plainly that state of temporal affairs which, by a proper distribution of labor, enables the entire human family to cultivate their best faculties. The Kingdom of God commences in this world, will progress in the next, and in all other worlds.
George Lippard
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The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Most people are too silly to be truly interested in any thing. They herd together like cattle, and do not know what is good for them.
Frank R. Stockton
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In all of nature, a male belongs to a female that he fancies and who fancies him. And so among the animals there are no idiots. But with us!... I'm a Jew, so I musn't love a Christian woman... He's a merchant, so he's got no right to a countess... And you who've got no money, you've no rights to any woman at all...
Bolesław Prus
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Men of science in former ages worked in secret, and instead of publishing their discoveries, taught them in secret to carefully selected pupils.
Alfred Percy Sinnett
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Next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.
Arthur Ransome
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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
Robert, Marquis de Flers
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Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.
Oswald Barron
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Be not concerned if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth; Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.
James Jeffrey Roche
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The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.
Alphonse Toussenel
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