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William Watson: We hold our...

William Watson: We hold our...

We hold our hate too choice a thing
For light and careless lavishing.


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Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

Hesiod: A bad neighbour...

A bad neighbour is as great a misfortune as a good one is a great blessing.

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Joseph Brodsky: There are worse...

Joseph Brodsky: There are worse...

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Ogden Nash: Some tortures are...

Some tortures are physical and some are mental, but the one that's both is dental.

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John Osborne: Thank God we're...

John Osborne: Thank God we're...

Thank God we're normal, normal, normal, Thank God we're normal, Yes, this is our finest...

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Aeschylus: There are times...

Aeschylus: There are times...

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: So many worlds,...

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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Harold Pinter: Good writing excites...

Harold Pinter: Good writing excites...

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

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Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

Terence Rattigan: A novelist may...

A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a...

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William Cowper: Knowledge is proud...

William Cowper: Knowledge is proud...

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no...

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Walt Whitman: There is that...

Walt Whitman: There is that...

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power...

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Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

Fulke Greville: The criterion of...

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it...

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Christina Rossetti: So now in...

Christina Rossetti: So now in...

So now in patience I possess
My soul year after tedious year,
Content to take the lowest place
The place...

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Countee Cullen: There is no...

Countee Cullen: There is no...

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the breaks. In order...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To love one...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: To love one...

To love one maiden only, cleave to her,
And worship her by years of noble deeds,
Until they won...

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David Mamet: The product of...

David Mamet: The product of...

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We...

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca: A good action...

Pedro Calderon de la Barca: A good action...

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

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J B Priestley: Our great-grandchildren, when...

J B Priestley: Our great-grandchildren, when...

Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn...

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Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Joseph Brodsky: Twentieth-century Russian literature...

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei...

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Robert Browning: The aim, if...

Robert Browning: The aim, if...

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life:
Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to...

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