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Authors of the 19th century

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Art and Culture
'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound t
Ralph Waldo Emerson
PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century
5.0 · 57 votes · 121 reads
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Thought and Reason
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
PoetIrish1854 · 19th century
4.8 · 12 votes · 89 reads
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Various
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
4.8 · 29 votes · 158 reads
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Society
A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century
3.9 · 62 votes · 136 reads
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Feelings
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
3.8 · 30 votes · 75 reads
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Feelings
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
WriterIrish1856 · 19th century
3.1 · 21 votes · 88 reads
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Time
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.1 · 43 votes · 164 reads
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Various
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
WriterBritish1795 · 18th century
4.0 · 15 votes · 51 reads
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Art and Culture
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.5 · 50 votes · 11 reads
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Various
'To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses deligh
Friedrich Nietzsche
WriterGerman1844 · 19th century
5.0 · 35 votes · 149 reads
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