All Quotes
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
It is only the first step that is difficult.Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.Saki, "The Square Egg", 1924
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.Lillian Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, 1969
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.Ivy Baker Priest, in Parade, 1958
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.Dame Rose Macaulay, Crewe Train, 1926
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.Marie De France, 12th Century
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964