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Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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All that glitters is not gold.
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Browse Quotations by Fadiman, Cliff

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.


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