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Quotes by English Authors
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke."
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."
"There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom."
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
"Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly."
"I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
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