Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

Dorothy Parker

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

George Bernard Shaw

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Edward P. Morgan

Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.

Bertrand Russell

We think you'll find that every woman in her heart of hearts longs for three things: to be romanced, to play an irreplaceable role in a great adventure, and to unveil beauty. That's what makes a woman come alive.

John Eldredge

It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed.

Jerry Saltz

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Failure is the path of least persistence

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He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.

Proverb

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland