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So what is WIST?WIST is my collection of quotations I find meaningful, moving, amusing (intended or not), or well-phrased.I've been collecting quotes, aphorisms, maxims, and sig lines since junior high (which is more years ago than I care to relate). I read books of quotations for fun.
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Ingersoll, Robert Green -- Lecture (1881-05-01) "The Great Infidels," Booth's Theater, New York City
Strange! that a world cursed by God, filled with temptations and thick with fiends, should be the only place where hope exists, the only place where man can repent, the only place where reform is possible! Strange! that heaven, filled with angels and pres
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Disraeli, Benjamin -- Vivian Grey, Book 8, ch. 5 (1827)
The Disappointment of Manhood succeeds to the delusion of Youth; let us hope that the heritage of Old Age is not Despair! Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) English politician and authorVivian Grey, Book 8, ch. 5 (1827) (Source) See also Disraeli (1844).
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Twain, Mark -- Novel (1889), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3 "The Tale of the Lost Land," ch. 10 "Beginnings of Civilization"
I could have given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presbyterian without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, com
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Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Poem (1885), "Happy Thought," A Child's Garden of Verses
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poetPoem (1885), "Happy Thought," A Child's Garden of Verses (Source)
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Greenwood, Kerry -- Phryne Fisher, Book 18, Dead Man's Chest, ch. 13 (2010)
Lust was a reliable emotion, but greed was altogether simpler to satisfy and you got to keep your clothes on. Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyerPhryne Fisher, Book 18, Dead Man's Chest, ch. 13 (2010)
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