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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Martin Luther A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • Anton Chekhov A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Christopher Hampton A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jean Genet A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Cyril Connolly A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Bruno Mars A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Barry Mann A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Beverly Sills A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Andrew Bernstein A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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  • Austin O'Malley A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Don Herold A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Samuel Johnson A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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