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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Barbarous experiment, barbarous...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Barbarous experiment, barbarous...

Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters.

Source: Experiments in Quantity, `On...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lead and I...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Lead and I...

Lead and I follow.

Source: Idylls of the King, `Gareth and Lynette', 726
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The moans of...

The moans of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.


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Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

Oscar Wilde: He knew the...

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Source: In The...

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Alexander Pope: Awake my St...

Alexander Pope: Awake my St...

Awake my St John! Leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us, since life can little...

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Alexander Pope: Fair tresses man's...

Alexander Pope: Fair tresses man's...

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.


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Alexander Pope: Men, some to...

Alexander Pope: Men, some to...

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake.


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Alexander Pope: Has she no...

Alexander Pope: Has she no...

Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?
Yes she has one, I must aver;
When all the world conspires to praise...

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Alexander Pope: How happy is...

Alexander Pope: How happy is...

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.


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Oscar Wilde: The critic has...

Oscar Wilde: The critic has...

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: No man is...

Oscar Wilde: No man is...

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Source:
-- Oscar Wilde, (Oct 16...

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Oscar Wilde: No artist has...

Oscar Wilde: No artist has...

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of...

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Oscar Wilde: Selfishness is not...

Oscar Wilde: Selfishness is not...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness...

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is...

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Oscar Wilde: All costumes are...

Oscar Wilde: All costumes are...

All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.

Source: The...

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Oscar Wilde: Agitators are a...

Oscar Wilde: Agitators are a...

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community...

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Stanislaw Lec: People find life...

Stanislaw Lec: People find life...

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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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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George Bernard Shaw: A doctor's reputation...

George Bernard Shaw: A doctor's reputation...

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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George Bernard Shaw: A life spent...

George Bernard Shaw: A life spent...

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing...

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