Quotes 601 till 620 of 1785.
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
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I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
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I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world - not much remembered when the ball is over.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.
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I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
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I hear you, the rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
The Telegraph, 15 september 2001 -
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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