Quotes with one-hundred-thousand-word

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  • Doug Larson A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • Napoleon A true man hates no one.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Alexander Hamilton A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one single mind which has been educated during all this time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Helen Rowland A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Maya Angelou A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Marcel Proust A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Carol Shields A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Margaret Atwood A word after a word after a word is power.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Gaston Bachelard A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Emily Dickinson A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George D. Prentice A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
    George D. Prentice
    American newspaper editor (1802 - 1870)
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  • James Thurber A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bill Cosby A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A word too much always defeats its purpose.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Paul Valery A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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