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Edgar Allan Poe has 333 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the…
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It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
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The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
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In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.
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...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth…
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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether…
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African film makers are scraping by on a mere pittance.
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From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I…
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All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things…
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The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.
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I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked to, or working and…
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If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced…
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Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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