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W. Somerset Maugham quote: "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too..."
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. W. Somerset Maugham
Did you bring the charms?” Wulf asked Diesel. Diesel took the charms from his pocket and held them in his palm so Wulf could see. “They have an excellent selection of baby carriages at Target,” I whispered to Diesel. “Not now,” Diesel said. “Get a grip.” “Was I bad? DO I need to get punished? Maybe I need a good paddling.” Wulf looked like he was thinking about rolling his eyes, and Diesel wrapped an arm around my shoulders and dragged me to him. “We’ll get to that later,” Diesel... Janet Evanovich
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I know that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of... Thomas Jefferson
Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind. John Phillips Marquand
My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now. Margaret Atwood
Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum.' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap,... C. S. Lewis
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. Herman Melville
Baroness Orczy quote: "She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him,..."
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him Baroness Orczy
John Steinbeck quote: "You was always too busy pullen' little girls' pigtails when I..."
You was always too busy pullen' little girls' pigtails when I give you the Holy Sperit. John Steinbeck
Jan Morris quote: "Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that..."
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasureof a library lies in its very existence. Jan Morris
I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all. Katherine Mansfield
Albert Camus quote: "When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for..."
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. Albert Camus
Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out invitations. Daphne du Maurier
Half smiling, with imperturbable brightness and friendliness, the Buddha looked steadily at the stranger and dismissed him with a hardly visible gesture. 'You are clever, O Samana,' said the Illustrious One, 'you know how to speak cleverly, my friend. Be on your guard against too much cleverness. Herman Hesse
Dave Barry quote: "No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it..."
No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. Dave Barry

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