“ In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. ”
- Friedrich Hegel- Copy
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“ There's a new tribunal now higher than God's — the educated man's! ”
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“ Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Happiness comes fleetingly now and then to those who have learned to do without it, and to them only. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. ”
- Douglas Hyde- Copy
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“ What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes. ”
- Philip Howard- Copy
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“ I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. ”
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“ Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays. ”
- Patrick White- Copy
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“ Creation 'scientists' must be aware that the informed workers in literary interpretation and in physical and biological sciences regard their stance as irresponsible, and that in the scholarly world as well as in the schools they are doing irreparabl. ”
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“ Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose. ”
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“ Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so it is with autobiography. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished. ”
- Roland Barthes- Copy
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“ I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. ”
- Calvin Trillin- Copy
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“ Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. ”
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