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James Fenimore Cooper

September 18, 2008

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

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Kate Chopin

August 16, 2008

The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

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Daniel Defoe

August 10, 2008

The best of men cannot suspend their fate:The good die early, and the bad die late.

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Joseph Conrad

July 29, 2008

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

July 10, 2008

In song and dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community: he has forgotten how to walk and speak and is on the way toward flying up into the air, dancing.

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Honore de Balzac

July 9, 2008

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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Honore de Balzac

July 9, 2008

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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Charlotte Bronte

June 23, 2008

There’s no use in weeping,Though we are condemned to part:There’s such a thing as keepingA remembrance in one’s heart…

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Jonathan Swift

June 22, 2008

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

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Agatha Christie

June 22, 2008

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

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