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He is every other inch a gentleman.
Gentlemen
Rebecca West

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.
Arts and Artists
Rebecca West

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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Mothers
Rebecca West

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The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.
Men and Women
Rebecca West

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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Coward and Cowardice
Bishop Westcott

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What we can do for another is the test of powers. What we can suffer for is the test of love.
Service
Bishop Westcott

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Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.
Giving
Edward Noyes Westcott

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We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
Decisions
Jonathan Westover

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The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
Competition
Paul Westphal

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Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
Anniversaries
W. J. Wetherby

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Giving
Edith Wharton

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There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Age and Aging
Edith Wharton

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Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Curiosity
Richard Whately

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
Truth
Richard Whately

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Honesty
Richard Whately

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It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Neglect
Richard Whately

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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
Losers and Losing
Richard Whately

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Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.
Argument
Richard Whately

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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Selfishness
Benjamin Whichcote

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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Books - Reading
Edwin P. Whipple

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Cheerfulness
Edwin P. Whipple

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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Irony
Edwin P. Whipple

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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
Soul
Edwin P. Whipple

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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
Conversation
James Mcneill Whistler

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
Grammar
Elwyn Brooks White

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun