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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
— Samuel Butler
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People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the…
— George Orwell
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Bravely you jog along with the rope of class distinction drawing closer, close, tighter, tighter around you... I see it and know…
— Miles Franklin
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Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…
— Plato
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Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
— Winston Churchill
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The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.
— Sheridan Smith
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the…
— Jean de La Fontaine
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