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 | "Life is a long lesson in humility." | |
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Found in the topic Humanitarian.
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| "To die will be an awfully big adventure." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?" | |
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Found in the topic Mathematics.
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| "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into
a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the
beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh
becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or
girl." | |
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Found in the topic Laugh.
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| "As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other
person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable
man." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "It"s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don"t need to
have anything else, and if you don"t have it, it doesn"t much matter what
else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have
charm for one. But some have charm for none." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "For several days after my first book was published I carried it
about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the
ink had not faded." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "Them that has china plates themsels is the maist careful no to break
the china plates of others." | |
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Found in the topic Property.
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| "His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will
never be equality in the servants? hall." | |
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Found in the topic Servant.
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| "We are all failures ? at least, the best of us are." | |
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Found in the topic Hope.
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| "A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force
open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you
don"t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more
interesting." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "The tragedy of the man who has found himself out." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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| "You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man?s rib;
she was made from his funny bone." | |
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Found in the topic Woe.
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| "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something
else." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by;
but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by." | |
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Found in the topic Idleness.
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| "We never understand how little we need in this world until we know
the loss of it." | |
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Found in the topic Understand.
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| "I can"t sleep." | |
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Found in the topic Last.
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| "The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one
story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the
volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." | |
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Found in the topic Diary.
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| "I"m youth, I"m joy, I"m a little bird that has broken out of the
egg." | |
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Found in the topic Youth.
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| "Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all by
himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It?s our only joke.
Every woman knows that." | |
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Found in the topic Achievement.
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