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"In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."
By Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, 1818
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"It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship."
By Colette, The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
By Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847
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"I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions."
By Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, 1952
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"It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice."
By Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
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"It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
By Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you."
By Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
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"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."
By Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
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"It is only the first step that is difficult."
By Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
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"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."
By Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
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"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."
By Dorothy Parker
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"It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
By Sally Kempton
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"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
By G. K. Chesterton
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"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
By Robert Fritz
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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
By Pablo Picasso
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"If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick."
By Bob Dylan
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"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
By Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard."
By William Lloyd Garrison
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
By Mark Twain
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"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
By George Washington, letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
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