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This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and… — Lewis Carroll
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of… — Emily Bronte
Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If I were a first rate writer, I wouldn't mind a bit. What does depress me is this: it is so desperately hard and so… — Martha Gellhorn
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris — Lucy Maud Montgomery
This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where… — P.G. Wodehouse
What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the… — Max Lucado
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is… — Joyce Carol Oates
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun.… — George Carlin
The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did… — Willa Cather
(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out) — Zadie Smith
I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered… — George Carlin
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he… — D. H. Lawrence
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. — Anna Quindlen
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those… — Peter Drucker
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could… — Sylvia Plath
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are… — Oscar Wilde
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of… — Kurt Vonnegut
You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate. — Bill Watterson

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