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"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."	W. Somerset Maugham
"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain."	W. Somerset Maugham
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."	W. Somerset Maugham
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."	Jonathan Swift
"And of all man's felicities The very subtlest one, say I, Is when for the first time he sees His hearthfire smoke against the sky."	Christopher Morley
"The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow."	Christopher Morley
"Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare."	Christopher Morley
"A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality."	E.B. White
"Originality is... a by-product of sincerity."	Marianne Moore
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."	George Bernard Shaw
"His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets."	Dorothy Parker
"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."	Olin Miller
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