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  • Jane Austen I pay very little regard to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Anthony Holden I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Benjamin Harrison I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
    Source: Speech in Rutland, Vermont (28 August 1891) as reported in The New York Times (29 August 1891), p. 5
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Buddy Rich I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • William Morris I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Queen Victoria I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Richard Baxter I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anton Chekhov I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Edith Cavell I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone.
    Edith Cavell
     
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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Anna Quindlen I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Andrew Wiles I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • James Baldwin I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Adam Arkin I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Samuel Butler I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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