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  • Agatha Christie He is like a cat. And all cats are thieves.
    Murder for Christmas (1939)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Henry James He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • William Ellery Channing He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
    William Ellery Channing
    American Unitarian minister (1780 - 1842)
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  • George Bernard Shaw He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ellen Glasgow He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine He knows the universe and does not know himself.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • James Baldwin He may be a very nice man. But I haven't got the time to figure that out. All I know is, he's got a uniform and a gun and I have to relate to him that way. That's the only way to relate to him because one of us may have to die.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Samuel Johnson He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carole King He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
    Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
    Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
    And his hand come down empty...
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • John Donne He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bjork He offers a handshake, crooked five fingers
    They form a pattern yet to be matched
    On the surface simplicity
    But the darkest pit in me is pagan poetry
    Songs Pagan Poetry, from Vespertine (2001)
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle He possesses two out of the three qualities necessary for the ideal detective. He has the power of observation and that of deduction. He is only wanting in knowledge.
    The Sign of the Four (1890)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Abraham Lincoln He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Oscar Wilde He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bram Stoker He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.
    Dracula (1897) Dr. John Seward
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Hilarie Belloc He served his God so faithfully and well
    that now he sees him face to face, in Hell.
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  • William Hazlitt He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Norman Douglas He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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