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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
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The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.
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The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
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The greatest Enemy That Man can have, is his Prosperity.
The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel 13 -
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
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The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
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