“Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.”
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
August Dvorak (1894–1975) American scientist
Discovery Magazine, 1997 http://discovermagazine.com/1997/apr/thecurseofqwerty1099/
Napoleon Hill book Think and Grow Rich
Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Think and Grow Rich (1938)
William H. McNeill (1917–2016) Canadian historian
Source: Plagues and Peoples (1976), Ch.1 "Man the Hunter".
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Notebook entry, London, 1889-05-12.
“I would always wait to take you home.”
David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary
Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.”
Derek Walcott (1930–2017) Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
Interview with Ed Hirsch (1986), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series (Penguin, 1988)
