Quotes 821 till 840 of 1030.
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There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boaaiabout it.
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There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.
Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) -
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
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There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
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There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
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There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
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