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“Talk is a pure art. Its only limits are the patience of listeners who, when they get tired, can always pay for their coffee or change it with a friendly waiter and walk out.”

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John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos was an American novelist born on January 14, 1896, and died on September 28, 1970. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into the realities of American society. more

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“When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop lighted cigarettes in the wastebasket.”

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Book:Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941

Source: Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941

“I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum . . . .I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours . . . instillers of stodginess.”

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Author:John Dos Passos

“It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.”

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Book:The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

Source: The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

“Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today -- for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.”

Enough Today Can Do Tomorrow

Author:George Gobel

“Out of all those centuries the Greeks can count seven sages at the most, and if anyone looks at them more closely I swear he'll not find so much as a half-wise man or even a third of a wise man among them.”

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Book:Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

“Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.”

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Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.”

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Author:Desiderius Erasmus

“The wedlocks of minds will be greater than that of bodies.”

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“I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.”

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Book:The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500

Source: The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500

“A good prince will tax as lightly as possible those commodities which are used by the poorest members of society: grain, bread, beer, wine, clothing, and all other staples without which human life could not exist.”

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Book:The education of a Christian prince

Source: The education of a Christian prince