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WS

William Shakespeare

Uncertain
Writer  •  England

3,879 quotes

AL

Abraham Lincoln

Uncertain
Political Leader  •  United States

1,084 quotes

MC

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Uncertain

1,003 quotes

AB

Ambrose Bierce

Uncertain
Writer  •  United States

937 quotes

CO

Confucius

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Philosopher  •  China

862 quotes

FF

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Uncertain
Writer  •  United States

732 quotes

OV

Ovid

Uncertain

662 quotes

AH

Adolf Hitler

Uncertain
Politician  •  Germany

661 quotes

LB

Lord Byron

Uncertain
1788

563 quotes

SJ

Steve Jobs

Uncertain
Entrepreneur  •  United States

558 quotes

ST

Sun Tzu

Uncertain

430 quotes

PS

Publilius Syrus

Uncertain

419 quotes

MP

Marcel Proust

Uncertain
1871

411 quotes

SO

Socrates

Uncertain
Philosopher  •  Greece

406 quotes

EP

Edgar Allan Poe

Uncertain
Writer  •  United States

387 quotes

CB

Charles Baudelaire

Uncertain
Poet  •  France

341 quotes

FS

Friedrich Schiller

Uncertain
1759

340 quotes

TE

Thomas A. Edison

Uncertain
1847

332 quotes

JB

Josh Billings

Uncertain
1818

326 quotes

FP

Fernando Pessoa

Uncertain

317 quotes

CB

Christian Nestell Bovee

Uncertain
Writer  •  United States

301 quotes

JU

Juvenal

Uncertain

284 quotes

WS

Wallace Stevens

Uncertain

267 quotes

CL

Charles Lamb

Uncertain
Writer  •  United Kingdom

255 quotes

AE

Aesop

Uncertain

245 quotes

TH

Thomas Hobbes

Uncertain
1588

240 quotes

WC

Willa Cather

Uncertain

230 quotes

TM

Thomas B. Macaulay

Uncertain
1800

229 quotes

WL

Walter Savage Landor

Uncertain

217 quotes

WF

W. C. Fields

Uncertain

216 quotes

AS

Adam Smith

Uncertain
Economist  •  Scotland

204 quotes

AL

Aldo Leopold

Uncertain

202 quotes

AR

Agnes Repplier

Uncertain

201 quotes

EM

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Uncertain
Poet  •  United States

196 quotes

MS

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Uncertain
1797

175 quotes

EH

E. W. Howe

Uncertain
Writer  •  United States

170 quotes

JB

John Burroughs

Uncertain
1837

167 quotes

RH

Robert Henri

Uncertain
1865

163 quotes

MA

Martial

Uncertain

162 quotes

KH

Kin Hubbard

Uncertain
1868

151 quotes

CM

Claude Monet

Uncertain
Painter  •  France

149 quotes

PV

Paul Valery

Uncertain
1871

149 quotes

HI

Hippocrates

Uncertain

146 quotes

WB

Walter Benjamin

Uncertain

139 quotes

RB

Robert Benchley

Uncertain
1889

138 quotes

PG

Paul Gauguin

Uncertain
1848

129 quotes

HR

Helen Rowland

Uncertain
1875

118 quotes

TH

Thucydides

Uncertain

117 quotes

RS

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Uncertain
1751

115 quotes

KM

Katherine Mansfield

Uncertain
1888

114 quotes

WB

Walter Bagehot

Uncertain

110 quotes

HW

Horace Walpole

Uncertain
1717

109 quotes

LB

L. Frank Baum

Uncertain
1856

109 quotes

FL

Federico Garcia Lorca

Uncertain
Poet  •  Spain

108 quotes

LS

Lysander Spooner

Uncertain
1808

107 quotes

SA

Sallust

Uncertain

103 quotes

UG

Ulysses S. Grant

Uncertain

102 quotes

DI

Diogenes

Uncertain
Philosopher  •  Ancient Greece

101 quotes

JG

Joseph Goebbels

Uncertain
1897

100 quotes

JR

Jules Renard

Uncertain
1864

100 quotes

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