An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mark Twain

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Nina Bawden

For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

George Eliot

My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.

Ellen Pompeo

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

He who denies all, confesses all.

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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Aristotle

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

C.S. Lewis

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

Oscar Wilde