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Mark Twain: Truth and fiction
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
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Persecution and not…
Ralph Waldo Emerson Español: Ralph Waldo Emerson. Français : Ralph Waldo Emerson Italiano: Ralph Waldo Emerson Nederlands: Fotogravure van Ralph Waldo Emerson Português: Ralph Waldo Emerson Русский: Ральф Уолдо Эмерсон Svenska: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Ambrose Bierce: Love
Ambrose Bierce portre (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. -Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)
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George Eliot: Lunacy, at large
English: George Eliot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
—George Eliot, Middle March
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Excess wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Photo credit: Books18)
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nasal mob
1848 Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe at 39, a year before his death (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ”
—Edgar Allan Poe
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Faith
Mark Twain (Photo credit: aftab.)
“Your faith is what you believe, not what you know. ”
—Mark Twain
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