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A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Author: Thomas Mann Look
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Author: George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I Look
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
Author: Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today" Look
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Author: Joseph Addison Look
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A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Author: Bob Edwards Look
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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Author: Joseph Roux Look
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Author: Sophocles Look
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night" Look
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Author: Edwin P. Whipple Look
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An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Author: Elbert Hubbard Look
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Look
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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Author: Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792 Look
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
Author: George Ade, "Fables in Slang", 1899 Look
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Author: Phyllis Diller Look
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A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
Author: Jane Caminos Look
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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
Author: Samuel Johnson Look
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Author: Samuel Johnson Look
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
Author: Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories" Look
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Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
Author: Stanley Walker Look
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Author: Paul Valery Look
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