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Best quotes on books

Best quotes on books, aphorisms, citations, quotations by various very popular and wise authors who explain us the great real value of written work of art. What’s more at the end of …

A Christmas story. Ella Gray. A Christmas Story from an Australian Christmas collection: stories, sketches, essays by James Francis Hogan published in 1880. Christmas being, proverbially and traditionally the time for family …

Christmas short stories

Christmas short stories, Nobody’s Story A Short Christmas Story by Charles Dickens and The Snow Man A Classic Children’s Short Story by Hans Christian Andersen. Stories are the most important thing in …

Reading quotes and aphorisms

Reading quotes and aphorisms chosen from various very wise and famous writers in order to emphasize the importance of books, of reading and of readers. The reading of all good books is …

The importance of reading

The importance of reading, a short article exploring the great advantage of reading books, news, and the different useful consequences on the reader brain. If we encounter a man of rare intellect, …

Thoughts and reflections on books

Thoughts and reflections on books by great authors, meditations, ideas and literary observations about books, the art of writing novels, poetry and essays. Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should …

Christianization of Britain

Christianization of Britain. The influence of Christian missionaries and priests in England has been significant for the development of the English language. The arrival of Christianity in England brought with it a …

The essence of aphorisms

The essence of aphorisms, an article that explains the laws of aphorism by James Geary with an introduction of Carl William Brown on this kind of literary and philosophical original genre. The …

Improve your English with AI

Improve your English with AI, a guide to web resources and apps that use Artificial Intelligence to manage the language in every field, from translation, to grammar correction, texts paraphrases and summaries, …

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt, a short article that narrates the story of Cleopatra and her life with references to her famous career in literature, theater, and film industry. Nay, pray you, seek …

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One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Quotes and aphorisms on love

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One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

The World of English, its language, its culture, its varieties, its future, and its infinite possibilities of communication in our small unique world.
Carl William Brown

Life is, in fact, a struggle. On this point pessimists and optimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty is beautiful, but rare; goodness is often apt to be weak, folly to be arrogant, and wickedness to prevail; fools in the places of honor and the best aloof; and humanity, as a whole, unhappy.
Henry James

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown