"I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

William James, American Philosopher

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"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

George Orwell, British Author

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"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Enthusiasm moves the world."

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"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."

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"The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"An outree explanation, violating all our preconceptions, would never pass for a true account of a novelty. We should scratch round industriously till we found something less excentric."

"A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will."

"Thought is actually something that is dead, it is not a living thing. If 'oneself' gets engrossed in what is dead, then it will become alive."

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also."

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"Enthusiasm moves the world."

"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."

"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth."

"I never forgive, but I always forget."

"Biography should be written by an acute enemy."

"Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all."

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"I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises."