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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do"
Olin Miller, Writer
"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people"
Thomas Mann, Writer
"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance"
Thomas Paine, Writer
"Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher"
Maggie Gallagher, Writer
"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens"
E. B. White, Writer
"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you"
David D. Burns, Writer
"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character"
Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"Adults are obsolete children"
Dr. Seuss, Writer
"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
"Your library is your portrait"
Holbrook Jackson, Writer
"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more"
Sherman Alexie, Writer
"Our true passions are selfish"
Stendhal, Writer
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses"
H. L. Mencken, Writer
"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth"
Voltaire, Writer
"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking"
Voltaire, Writer
"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare"
Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
William Edward Hickson, Writer
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