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QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.


Ambrose Bierce

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HENRY CONSTABLE The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing Made of a quill from an angel's wing.
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SIMONE WEIL Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes ...
SIMONE VEIL Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes ...
SIMONE WEIL A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw
ENGLISH PROVERB Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manuf...
SIMONE WEIL And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
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ROBERT SNYDER Oh! nature's noblest gift--my gray-goose quill! Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, To...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) If Shakespeare were working right now, he wouldn't be working with a quill pen. He would be working ...
KEN KESEY He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose
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SOTONYE ANGA We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
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MICHAEL SPECTER I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. A...
STEVE BREEN By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
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It's an interesting question isn't it?
I guess on 89% su...
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TWYLA THARP Whose noble praise Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing.
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ANDREW FAIRCHILD A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury
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I am the SCHOOLMASTER
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Just...
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TAYLOR V. DONOVAN Each member of the Lord's body is directly connected and answers only to the Lord Jesus as the Head.
HENRY HON The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
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WALTER MURCH How would you feel about sharing your bed?" she asked.
Tristan blinked. "Excuse me?"
"He...
ELIZABETH CHANDLER If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.
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EMILY GREENE BALCH You're the one who may die," the alchemist said. "I already know how to turn myself into the wind.
THE ALCHEMIST BY PAULO COELHO Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
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LORD JOHN RUSSELL (1) To modern educated people, it seems obvious that matters of fact are to be ascertained by observatio...
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NOW IS GOOD Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
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BY ALEFLETCHER The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
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JEFFREY FRY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.
STEVEN CUOCO Torture is practiced systematically by the security forces, ... This was admitted by high officials ...
MANFRED NOWAK When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in...
HILARY MANTEL By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS I knew how to swim by the time I turned 4.
AUDRINA PATRIDGE By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.
CONOR MCGREGOR No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar ...
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CHANAKYA Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose f...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction ...
AMBROSE BIERCE The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
AMBROSE BIERCE TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeab...
AMBROSE BIERCE Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
AMBROSE BIERCE Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
AMBROSE BIERCE Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and wa...
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