ARNOLD BENNETT 1867-1931

English novelist  

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A most curious and useful thing to realise is that one never knows the impression one is creating on other people. 

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WILLIAM FEATHER 1889-1981

American publisher and author

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness. Not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 1820-1910

English nurse and hospital reformer during the Crimean War

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No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - "devoted and obedient." This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse.

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ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPERY 1900-44

French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator

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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but on looking together in the same direction.

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HELEN KELLER 1880-1968

American writer and lecturer who was both deaf and blind

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 1844-1900

German philosopher

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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Updated every Friday - QUIRKIE QUOTES 
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BERTRAND RUSSELL 1872-1970

British philosopher, mathematician, historian and social critic

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 No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.

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DORIS LESSING b.1919

 Rhodesian writer exiled to Britain

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There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but the second best.

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ROBERT SOUTHEY 1774-1843

English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1813 till his death.

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Curses are like young chickens. They always come home to roost.

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L.M. MONTGOMERY 1874-1942

Canadian author best known for "Anne of Green Gables"

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Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

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beginning today - THE ETERNAL VENUS

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SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-84

English poet, essayist, critic and biographer

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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempting to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.

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JOHN RUSKIN 1819-1900

English art critic

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

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EMILY BRONTE 1818-48

English novelist and poet

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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.

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beginning Monday 11th March

THE ETERNAL VENUS

a celebration of women in paintings

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CONFUCIUS 551BC-479BC

Chinese teacher and philosopher

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I hear and I forget,

I see and I remember,

I do and I understand.

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PENELOPE FITZGERALD 1916-2000

Booker prize-winning English novelist and poet

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Twice in your life you know that you are approved by everyone; 

when you learn to walk and when you learn to read.

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MARCEL PROUST 1871-1922

French novelist and essayist

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We do not receive wisdom. We must discover it for ourselves after experience which no one else can have for us and from which no one else can spare us.

NEW - beginning Monday 11th March - NEW
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a celebration of women in paintings
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GAUTAMA BUDDHA circa563 BC to 483 BC

A spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. 

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There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; 

not going all the way, and not starting.

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IRIS MURDOCH 1919-99

Irish-born British author and philosopher

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What can one do with the past? 

Forgive it. Let it enter into you in peace.

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H.L. MENCKEN 1880-1956

American journalist, essayist and satirist

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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as a good burglar. 

updated every week-end

QUIRKIE QUOTES

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BLAISE PASCAL 1623-62

French mathematician, inventor and philosopher

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The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others. 

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