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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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Doyle, Arthur Conan -- Story (1891-09), "A Case of Identity," Holmes, The Strand Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 3
My dear fellow, life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great
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Roosevelt, Theodore -- Autobiography, ch. 1 "Boyhood and Youth" (1913)
The teaching which I received was genuinely democratic in one way. It was not so democratic in another. I grew into manhood thoroughly imbued with the feeling that a man must be respected for what he made of himself. But I had also, consciously or unconsc
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Doctor Who (1963) -- 1705 "The Horns of Nimon," Part 1 (1979-12-22) w. Anthony Read
ROMANA: Don't you think that's a bit dangerous? THE DOCTOR: No, I don't! What could possibly go - (The TARDIS lurches, knocking the Doctor over) - wrong? You know, I've simply got to stop saying that! Every single time I say "What could possibly go wrong?
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Billings, Josh -- Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1877-10 (1877 ed.)
I never knu a man to brag ov hiz munny, or hiz pedigree, who had enny thing else worth bragging about. I never knew a man to brag of his money, or his pedigree, who had anything else worth bragging about. Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphor
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Tusculan Disputations Tusculanae Disputationes, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19.) / sec. 44 (1.44) (45 BC) tr. Douglas (1985)
MARCUS: There is naturally in our minds a quite insatiable longing to discover truth. Natura inest in mentibus nostris insatiabilis quaedam cupiditas veri. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopherTusculan Disputations Tuscula
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