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There is nothing stronger in this world than gentleness.

Han Suyin


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Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston.

Stephen King

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Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

Ken Kesey


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You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Mark Twain


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Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.

Herman Melville

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Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

George Eliot

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The question of how things will settle down is the only important question...

Leo Tolstoy


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Enough or not...it will have to do

Leo Tolstoy


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presume nothing

Arthur Conan Doyle


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