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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Journalist

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.”

Mind Literature Mouths

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.”

House Literature Property Ownership

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

Political Literature

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John Ruskin

Art Critic, Writer

“The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.”

Men Literature

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Franz Kafka

Writer

“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.”

Literature Health Despair

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Jonathan Swift

Satirist, Writer

“A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.”

Literature Drinking

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Jonathan Swift

Satirist, Writer

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

Men Literature

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”

Literature Humor Forever

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Jane Austen

Novelist

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”

Men Love Literature

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Moliere

Playwright, Actor

“If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.”

Literature Wells

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Lord Byron

Poet, Novelist

“And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.”

Literature Sin

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D. H. Lawrence

Novelist, Poet

“There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.”

Literature Liberty Masters

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