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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Eric Hoffer
    “You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
    Eric Hoffer

  • #3
    Mark Twain
    “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    Mark Twain

  • #4
    Eric Hoffer
    “People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
    Eric Hoffer

  • #5
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #6
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

  • #7
    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #8
    Eric Hoffer
    “When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
    Eric Hoffer

  • #9
    Eric Hoffer
    “Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.”
    Eric Hoffer

  • #10
    Edmund Burke
    “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #12
    Eric Hoffer
    “Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”
    Eric Hoffer

  • #13
    Edmund Burke
    “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Eric Hoffer
    “In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
    Eric Hoffer

  • #18
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Eric Hoffer
    “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
    Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time

  • #22
    Eric Hoffer
    “Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.”
    Eric Hoffer

  • #23
    Barbara Trapido
    “It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and some of us use our memories.”
    Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack

  • #24
    Barbara Trapido
    “She could surely rise to a dishwasher, but she prefers to use her children. She believes that a row of children chopping vegetables is a better thing than a machine.”
    Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack

  • #25
    Barbara Trapido
    “I am in general susceptible to style.”
    Barbara Trapido, Brother of the More Famous Jack
    tags: style

  • #26
    John Steinbeck
    “A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.”
    John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

  • #27
    “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam."

    "I shall either find away, or make one”
    Latin Quote

  • #28
    Galileo Galilei
    “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
    Galileo Galilei

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #30
    J.K. Rowling
    “If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire



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