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James Monroe: Our country may...

James Monroe: Our country may...

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all --...

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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.

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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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Ogden Nash: People who work...

Ogden Nash: People who work...

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

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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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Oscar Wilde: He hasn't a...

Oscar Wilde: He hasn't a...

He hasn't a single redeeming vice.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come down, O...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Come down, O...

Come down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:
What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Sweet is true...

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

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Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

Alexander Pope: An excuse is...

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Alexander Pope: Cibber! write all...

Alexander Pope: Cibber! write all...

Cibber! write all thy Verses upon Glasses,
The only way to save 'em from our Arses.


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Alexander Pope: How often are...

Alexander Pope: How often are...

How often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best...

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Alexander Pope: Passions are the...

Alexander Pope: Passions are the...

Passions are the gales of life.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ah, why<br>Should life...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ah, why
Should life...

Ah, why
Should life all labour be?


Source: The Lotos-Eaters, `Choric Song',...

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Francis Quarles: Be wisely worldly,...

Francis Quarles: Be wisely worldly,...

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Source: Emblems.
-- Francis Quarles,...

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Ogden Nash: Some debts are...

Ogden Nash: Some debts are...

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring...

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