"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on writers and writing
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"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."

Henry, O. on famous last words
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"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."

Coward, Noel on memory
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"There's always something fishy about the French."

Coward, Noel on nations   

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."

Poe, Edgar Allan on grammar
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"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Adams, Douglas on atheism
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"Genius is sorrow's child."

Adams, John on genius
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"The happiness of society is the end of government."

Adams, John on society
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"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."

Austen, Jane on fear
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"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

Austen, Jane on marriage
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"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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"From politics it was an easy step to silence."

Austen, Jane on silence
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"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

Bach, Johann Sebastian on practice   

"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

Austen, Jane on misfortunes
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