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  • Asa Gray I know some people who never have any difficulties to speak of. The moment I understood your premisses, I felt sure you had a real foundation to hold on.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Lord George Byron I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Santayana I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Anita Diamant I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • Alex Haley I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • James Baldwin I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Walt Disney I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Ben Jonson I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio On William Shakespeare
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Sir Francis Drake I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. I would know him, that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Oscar Wilde I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Cowley I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Buzz Osborne I never wanted to be part of any scene, I never wanted to be a part of anything, I wanted to do my own thing. Those are the lessons I learned from punk rock.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Jane Porter I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellowcreature.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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