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 | "The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour"s discourse
a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and
keep on the mantelpiece forever." | |
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Found in the topic Teach.
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| "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him
by heart and his friends can only read the title." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability
to cross the street." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without
signing them, was often a woman." | |
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Found in the topic Writing.
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| "Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded
beyond reason the opinion of others." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign
tongue." | |
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Found in the topic Humor.
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| "The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." | |
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Found in the topic Old.
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| "If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it
about other people." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing
the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its
natural size." | |
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Found in the topic Woe.
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| "Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded." | |
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Found in the topic History.
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| "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of
anguish, cutting the heart asunder." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined
well." | |
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Found in the topic Time.
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| "Last Words in a Suicide note: I feel certain that I"m going mad
again. I feel we can"t go thru another of those terrible times. And I
shan"t recover this time. I begin to hear voices." | |
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Found in the topic Last.
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| "Arrange whatever pieces come your way." | |
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Found in the topic Adapt.
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| "The history of men"s opposition to women"s emancipation is more
interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." | |
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Found in the topic Story.
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| "Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known,
euphemistically, as the stately homes of England." | |
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Found in the topic Engineer.
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| "One cannot live well, love well or sleep well unless one has dined
well." | |
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Found in the topic Food.
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