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"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
By Thomas Mann
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"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."
By George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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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."
By Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
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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."
By Joseph Addison
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"A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad."
By Bob Edwards
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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."
By Joseph Roux
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"A short saying oft contains much wisdom."
By Sophocles
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
By Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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"An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly."
By Edwin P. Whipple
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"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."
By Elbert Hubbard
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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
By Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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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."
By Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", 1792
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"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
By George Ade, "Fables in Slang", 1899
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"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
By Phyllis Diller
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"A waist is a terrible thing to mind."
By Jane Caminos
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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."
By Samuel Johnson
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"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."
By Samuel Johnson
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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."
By Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories"
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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."
By Stanley Walker
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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
By Paul Valery
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