"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."

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"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Being, Right

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Being, Earth, Profession

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."

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"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

Beauty

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Life

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."

Life

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

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"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."

"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet."

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."

"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."

"In art economy is always beauty."

"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."

"Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women."