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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Find He Home Man Needs Over Returns Search Travels World

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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Making Man Plagiarism Something Taking Worse

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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

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Topics: He His Letters Man Never Objects Pen Sharpens Slum

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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Art Beginning Cosmopolitan End In The Beginning In The End Must

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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

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Topics: Does Everybody He Out Sets Something

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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Am Back Beautiful Dublin Ever Front Long Love Most Most Beautiful Mountains Roads Sea Seen Suburbs Think Through Town Truth Truth Is Winding Woods I Think I Am

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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

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Topics: Always More Reasonable Seems Way Wrong Wrong Way

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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Again Ants Back Become Bees Down Each Entirely Equally Habits How Human Human Mind Insects Instincts Lives Making Men Mind Necessary Noting Perish Pleasure Rise Selfish Sink Some Some Men Spend Surface Unselfish Watch Watching Way Were World Would

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The difficulty in life is the choice.

~George A. Moore

Topics: Choice Difficulty Life

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

~George A. Moore

Topics: Destroy Dream Reality Why

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: February 24th, 1852

Died: January 21st, 1933

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