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Inspirational Quotes by James Branch Cabell
- There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
- At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.
- I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.
- Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
- No lady is ever a gentleman.
- People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.
- Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.
- I am willing to taste any drink once.
- The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
- Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
- There is no gift more great than love.
- Patriotism is the religion of hell.
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