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Oscar Wilde: One should always...

Oscar Wilde: One should always...

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Source: In Webster's...

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Alexander Pope: True wit is...

Alexander Pope: True wit is...

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well...

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Alexander Pope: The mob of...

Alexander Pope: The mob of...

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Source: Satires and Epistles of Horace...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Theirs not to...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Theirs not to...

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our little systems...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Our little systems...

Our little systems have their day;
They have their day and cease to be.


Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Oh yet we...

Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill!


Source: In...

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Friedrich von Schiller: Truth exists for...

Friedrich von Schiller: Truth exists for...

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Source: In Webster's...

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Douglas Jerrold: Readers are of...

Douglas Jerrold: Readers are of...

Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go...

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Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Source:...

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Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did...

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Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Sean O'Casey: Wealth often takes...

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a...

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Charles Dibdin: In every mess...

Charles Dibdin: In every mess...

In every mess I find a friend,
In every port a wife.


Source: Jack in his...

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Thomas Tusser: Some respite to...

Thomas Tusser: Some respite to...

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,
But housewives' affairs have never an...

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Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

Terry McMillan: I don't trust...

I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is...

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Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Vita Sackville-West: Ambition, old as...

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Source: 'No...

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Wendy Wasserstein: Because of Mozart,...

Wendy Wasserstein: Because of Mozart,...

Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.

Source: Comment.
--...

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Francis Beaumont: It is always...

Francis Beaumont: It is always...

It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.


Source: The Faithful...

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Marcel Pagnol: Whenever I go...

Marcel Pagnol: Whenever I go...

Whenever I go to the dock and look at the horizon, I am on the other side. If I see a boat on the ocean, it pulls me...

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Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

It requires genius to make a good pun -- some men of bright parts can't reach it.

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Joe Orton: It's all any...

Joe Orton: It's all any...

It's all any reasonable child can expect if the dad is present at the conception.

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